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{
"fealty":{
"adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty":{
"examples":[
"as much as I wanted to back my friend up, my fealty to the truth was greater, and I could not lie for him"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhesion",
"allegiance",
"attachment",
"commitment",
"constancy",
"dedication",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fastness",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"piety",
"steadfastness",
"troth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affection",
"fondness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolution",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"estrangement",
"separation"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"unfaithfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fearfulness":{
"the emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a vet who was adept at easing the fearfulness of her animal patients"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"assurance",
"boldness",
"confidence",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"fortitude",
"gallantry",
"hardihood",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"audacity",
"guts",
"nerve"
],
"related":[
"phobia",
"creeps",
"jitters",
"nervousness",
"willies",
"pang",
"qualm",
"twinge",
"agitation",
"apprehension",
"consternation",
"discomposure",
"disquiet",
"funk",
"perturbation",
"concern",
"dismay",
"worry",
"cowardice",
"faintheartedness",
"timidity",
"timorousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"dread",
"fear",
"fright",
"horror",
"panic",
"scare",
"terror",
"trepidation"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fearlessness":{
"strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger":{
"examples":[
"the admirable fearlessness shown by the pioneers of the civil rights movement"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottle",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"daringness",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"gutsiness",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intestinal fortitude",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"moxie",
"nerve",
"pecker",
"prowess",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"virtue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"pluckiness",
"spunk",
"temper",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"stomach",
"tenacity",
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"cheek",
"cojones",
"effrontery",
"gall",
"temerity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cold feet",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"mousiness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness",
"impotence",
"ineffectualness",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"indecisiveness",
"irresolution"
],
"antonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feasts":{
"a large fancy meal often accompanied by ceremony or entertainment":{
"examples":[
"some 90 Native Americans showed up for the feast put on by the Pilgrims at Plymouth"
],
"synonyms":[
"banquets",
"dinners",
"feeds",
"regales",
"spreads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chow",
"messes",
"repasts",
"tables",
"blowouts",
"carnivals",
"festivals",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"galas",
"parties",
"shindigs",
"festivities",
"barbecues",
"barbeques",
"clambakes",
"cookouts",
"fries",
"luaus",
"roasts",
"buffets",
"luncheons",
"smorgasbords"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a source of great satisfaction":{
"examples":[
"the colorful Mardi Gras parade is a feast for the senses"
],
"synonyms":[
"delectations",
"delights",
"gases",
"gasses",
"joys",
"kicks",
"mannas",
"pleasures",
"treats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusements",
"diversions",
"entertainments",
"fun",
"recreations",
"comforts",
"reliefs",
"solaces",
"gratifications",
"indulgences",
"ambrosias"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to entertain with a fancy meal":{
"examples":[
"the returning war heroes were feasted all over the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"banquets",
"dines",
"junkets",
"regales"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boards",
"caters",
"feeds",
"provisions",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"honors",
"recognizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give satisfaction to":{
"examples":[
"feast your eyes on all the fresh flowers at the farmers' market"
],
"synonyms":[
"agrees (with)",
"contents",
"delights",
"gases",
"gasses",
"gladdens",
"glads",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"pleasures",
"rejoices",
"satisfies",
"suits",
"warms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"soothes",
"assuages",
"quenches",
"sates",
"satiates",
"excites",
"tickles",
"titillates",
"amuses",
"diverts",
"entertains",
"treats",
"captivates",
"charms",
"galvanizes",
"thrills",
"calms",
"comforts",
"caters (to)",
"humors",
"indulges",
"coddles",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"spoils"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"chafes",
"crosses",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"irks",
"irritates",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"perturbs",
"piques",
"puts out",
"ruffles",
"vexes",
"angers",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"outrages",
"rankles",
"riles",
"roils",
"steams up",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"agitates",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"frets",
"upsets",
"harasses",
"harries",
"pesters",
"affronts",
"insults",
"offends"
],
"antonyms":[
"displeases"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"featherhead":{
"a person who lacks good sense or judgment":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"discovered that the sales clerk was not a featherhead , but had made an honest mistake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sage",
"thinker",
"brain",
"genius"
],
"related":[
"daredevil",
"madman",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"dope",
"dork",
"dumbbell",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"fathead",
"gander",
"goon",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"moron",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"pinhead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schlump",
"schnook",
"stock",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"butt",
"dupe",
"laughingstock",
"mockery",
"monkey",
"chump",
"loser",
"schlemiel",
"shlemiel",
"character",
"codger",
"crackbrain",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"kook",
"oddball",
"screwball",
"weirdo"
],
"synonyms":[
"berk",
"booby",
"charlie",
"charley",
"cuckoo",
"ding-a-ling",
"ding-dong",
"dingbat",
"dipstick",
"doofus",
"fool",
"git",
"goose",
"half-wit",
"jackass",
"lunatic",
"mooncalf",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"simp",
"simpleton",
"turkey",
"yo-yo"
]
},
"a silly flighty person":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"too important a diplomatic post to assign to some congenial featherhead"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fool",
"goose",
"silly",
"simpleton"
],
"synonyms":[
"birdbrain",
"cuckoo",
"ditz",
"featherbrain",
"flibbertigibbet",
"nitwit",
"rattlebrain",
"scatterbrain",
"softhead"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"featured":{
"to form a mental picture of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I can't feature that guy wearing anything other than his usual jeans and T-shirt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"daydreamed",
"stargazed",
"hallucinated",
"re-created",
"recreated",
"reflected",
"relived",
"reminisced",
"contemplated",
"meditated",
"mused",
"pondered",
"ruminated",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"planned",
"projected",
"foresaw",
"prefigured"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceited",
"conceived",
"conjured (up)",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"fancied",
"fantasied",
"fantasized",
"ideated",
"imaged",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"saw",
"visioned",
"visualized"
]
},
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasized",
"played down"
],
"examples":[
"a restaurant featuring an extensive list of American wines to complement its creative American cuisine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"toned (down)",
"underemphasized",
"understated",
"belittled",
"discounted",
"disparaged",
"minimized"
],
"related":[
"focused",
"focussed",
"identified",
"pinpointed",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"advertised",
"boosted",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"publicized",
"overplayed"
],
"synonyms":[
"accented",
"accentuated",
"emphasized",
"foregrounded",
"highlighted",
"illuminated",
"played up",
"pointed (up)",
"pressed",
"punctuated",
"stressed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"features":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"a restaurant featuring an extensive list of American wines to complement its creative American cuisine"
],
"synonyms":[
"accents",
"accentuates",
"emphasizes",
"foregrounds",
"highlights",
"illuminates",
"plays up",
"points (up)",
"presses",
"punctuates",
"stresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focuses",
"focusses",
"identifies",
"pinpoints",
"spotlights",
"advertises",
"boosts",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"publicizes",
"overplays"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tones (down)",
"underemphasizes",
"understates",
"belittles",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasizes",
"plays down"
]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"I can't feature that guy wearing anything other than his usual jeans and T-shirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceits",
"conceives",
"conjures (up)",
"dreams",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"fancies",
"fantasies",
"fantasizes",
"ideates",
"images",
"imagines",
"pictures",
"sees",
"visions",
"visualizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreams",
"stargazes",
"hallucinates",
"re-creates",
"reflects",
"relives",
"reminisces",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"muses",
"ponders",
"ruminates",
"concocts",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"plans",
"projects",
"foresees",
"prefigures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind":{
"examples":[
"perhaps the most striking feature of that house is the way it was constructed to fit into its hillside site"
],
"synonyms":[
"affections",
"attributes",
"attributions",
"characteristics",
"characters",
"criteria",
"criterions",
"diagnostics",
"differentiae",
"fingerprints",
"hallmarks",
"markers",
"marks",
"notes",
"particularities",
"peculiarities",
"points",
"properties",
"qualities",
"specifics",
"stamps",
"touches",
"traits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badges",
"indications",
"signs",
"emblems",
"symbols",
"tokens",
"charms",
"graces",
"excellences",
"merits",
"virtues",
"eccentricities",
"idiosyncrasies",
"oddities",
"quirks",
"individualities",
"singularities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"featurette":{
"as in documentary , feature":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animated cartoon",
"cartoon",
"docudrama",
"documentary",
"feature",
"short",
"short subject",
"film",
"flick",
"flicker",
"motion picture",
"movie",
"moving picture",
"picture",
"silent",
"talkie",
"B movie",
"B picture",
"cofeature"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"federated":{
"as in associated , affiliated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliated",
"associated",
"biased",
"partial",
"partisan",
"prejudiced",
"unfair",
"belligerent",
"allied",
"confederate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"neutral",
"nonpartisan",
"nonaligned",
"hands-off",
"noninterventionist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"in the years following World War II, the U.S. and the nations of western Europe made the decision to federate as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization"
],
"synonyms":[
"allied",
"associated",
"banded (together)",
"clubbed",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"cooperated",
"leagued",
"united"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caballed",
"collaborated",
"ganged up",
"hung together",
"teamed (up)",
"incorporated",
"organized",
"unionized",
"affiliated",
"amalgamated",
"combined",
"conglomerated",
"consolidated",
"converged",
"grouped",
"joined",
"merged",
"knotted",
"linked",
"tied",
"wedded",
"wed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disengaged",
"dissolved",
"disunited",
"divorced",
"parted",
"segregated",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"alienated",
"estranged",
"fell out"
],
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"federation":{
"an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection":{
"examples":[
"the new organization is a federation of existing organizations that were all dedicated to preserving Civil War battlefields"
],
"synonyms":[
"alliance",
"axis",
"bloc",
"block",
"coalition",
"combination",
"combine",
"confederacy",
"confederation",
"league",
"union"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cabal",
"conspiracy",
"junto",
"cartel",
"syndicate",
"trust",
"faction",
"front",
"fusion",
"side",
"wing",
"association",
"group",
"organization",
"affiliation",
"cooperative",
"partnership",
"circuit",
"conference"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"federations":{
"an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the new organization is a federation of existing organizations that were all dedicated to preserving Civil War battlefields"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cabals",
"conspiracies",
"juntos",
"cartels",
"syndicates",
"trusts",
"factions",
"fronts",
"fusions",
"sides",
"wings",
"associations",
"groups",
"organizations",
"affiliations",
"cooperatives",
"partnerships",
"circuits",
"conferences"
],
"synonyms":[
"alliances",
"axes",
"blocks",
"blocs",
"coalitions",
"combinations",
"combines",
"confederacies",
"confederations",
"leagues",
"unions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feebleminded":{
"as in cretinous , simpleminded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cretinous",
"simpleminded",
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"bonehead",
"boneheaded",
"brain-dead",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"fatuous",
"gormless",
"half-witted",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"lunkheaded",
"mindless",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"senseless",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"stupid",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thick-witted",
"unintelligent",
"unsmart",
"vacuous",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"boobish",
"foolish",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"moronic",
"ignorant",
"illiterate",
"lowbrow",
"uneducated",
"uninformed",
"unintellectual",
"untaught",
"unthinking",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"half-baked",
"harebrained",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"silly",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"zany",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apt",
"brainy",
"bright",
"brilliant",
"clever",
"fast",
"hyperintelligent",
"intelligent",
"keen",
"nimble",
"quick",
"quick-witted",
"sharp",
"sharp-witted",
"smart",
"supersmart",
"ultrasmart",
"ingenious",
"resourceful",
"acute",
"astute",
"discerning",
"insightful",
"keen",
"knowing",
"perceptive",
"percipient",
"perspicacious",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sapient",
"savvy",
"wise",
"cerebral",
"erudite",
"highbrow",
"intellectual",
"knowledgeable",
"learned",
"literate",
"scholarly",
"thinking",
"well-read",
"educated",
"informed",
"schooled",
"skilled",
"trained",
"crafty",
"cunning",
"foxy",
"shrewd",
"wily",
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sane",
"sensible",
"sound",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"feebleness":{
"the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the patient felt a lingering feebleness in the weeks following her heart surgery"
],
"synonyms":[
"asthenia",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"enervation",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"fragility",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"infirmity",
"languidness",
"languor",
"listlessness",
"lowness",
"weakness",
"wimpiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decay",
"decrepitude",
"breakdown",
"collapse",
"prostration",
"exhaustion",
"fatigue",
"lassitude",
"weariness",
"defenselessness",
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impuissance",
"powerlessness",
"effeteness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"disablement",
"incapacitation",
"invalidism",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impairment",
"injury"
],
"near antonyms":[
"energy",
"vitality",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"heftiness",
"huskiness",
"lustiness",
"muscularity",
"virility",
"hardness",
"ruggedness",
"stoutness",
"sturdiness",
"toughness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"wellness"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardihood",
"hardiness",
"robustness",
"strength",
"vigor"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feeding":{
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"examples":[
"a charity dedicated to feeding the hungry"
],
"synonyms":[
"boarding",
"catering",
"provisioning",
"victualing",
"victualling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serving",
"waiting",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"sustaining",
"banqueting",
"dining",
"feasting",
"regaling",
"messing",
"battening",
"fattening",
"filling",
"force-feeding",
"overfeeding",
"surfeiting",
"underfeeding",
"hand-feeding",
"spoon-feeding",
"refeeding",
"reprovisioning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption":{
"examples":[
"all week long colleagues have been feeding me ideas for a magazine article"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivering",
"furnishing",
"giving",
"handing",
"handing over",
"providing",
"supplying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"plying (with)",
"administering",
"allocating",
"apportioning",
"dealing (out)",
"dispensing",
"distributing",
"doling out",
"meting (out)",
"parceling (out)",
"parcelling (out)",
"portioning",
"prorating",
"assigning",
"ceding",
"deeding",
"making over",
"transferring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserving",
"keeping up",
"maintaining",
"preserving",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[
"holding (back)",
"keeping (back)",
"reserving",
"retaining",
"withholding"
]
},
"to take a meal":{
"examples":[
"an all-you-can-eat buffet where families can feed heartily and fairly inexpensively"
],
"synonyms":[
"dining",
"eating",
"faring",
"partaking",
"refreshing",
"victualing",
"victualling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banqueting",
"feasting",
"repasting",
"chowing (down)",
"digging in",
"glutting",
"gorging",
"gormandizing",
"overeating",
"overfeeding",
"pigging out",
"grazing",
"nibbling",
"noshing",
"picking",
"snacking",
"boarding",
"dining out",
"messing",
"breakfasting",
"lunching",
"supping",
"picnicking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieting",
"fasting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feeing":{
"to provide with a paying job":{
"examples":[
"the townspeople fee country lasses as housemaids, nurses, and cooks"
],
"synonyms":[
"assuming",
"employing",
"engaging",
"hiring",
"laying on",
"paying",
"placing",
"recruiting",
"retaining",
"signing (up or on)",
"taking on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reemploying",
"re-employing",
"reengaging",
"re-engaging",
"rehiring",
"apprenticing",
"contracting",
"jobbing",
"partnering",
"subcontracting",
"enlisting",
"advancing",
"promoting",
"upgrading",
"keeping (on)",
"headhunting",
"scouting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"furloughing",
"laying off",
"locking out"
],
"antonyms":[
"axing",
"canning",
"discharging",
"dismissing",
"firing",
"sacking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feel":{
"to have a vague awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I feel trouble brewing in the town"
],
"synonyms":[
"perceive",
"scent",
"see",
"sense",
"smell",
"taste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"behold",
"descry",
"discern",
"distinguish",
"espy",
"eye",
"look (at)",
"note",
"notice",
"observe",
"regard",
"remark",
"sight",
"spy",
"view",
"witness",
"ascertain",
"catch on (to)",
"discover",
"find out",
"hear",
"learn",
"realize",
"anticipate",
"divine",
"expect",
"foreknow",
"foresee",
"assume",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"presume",
"speculate",
"suppose",
"surmise",
"suspect"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin":{
"examples":[
"feel this blanket and perceive how soft it is"
],
"synonyms":[
"touch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caress",
"embrace",
"finger",
"fondle",
"hug",
"kiss",
"lip",
"nose",
"nudge",
"nuzzle",
"paw",
"rub",
"stroke",
"palp",
"palpate",
"brush",
"graze",
"shave",
"skim",
"clasp",
"clench",
"cling (to)",
"clutch",
"grasp",
"grip",
"handle",
"hold",
"palm",
"chuck",
"clap",
"dab",
"flick",
"pat",
"tag",
"tap",
"tip",
"hit",
"knock",
"pound",
"rap",
"whack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"with the birth of their first child the couple came to feel true happiness for the first time"
],
"synonyms":[
"endure",
"experience",
"have",
"know",
"pass",
"see",
"suffer",
"sustain",
"taste",
"undergo",
"witness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encounter",
"meet",
"accept",
"receive",
"assimilate",
"digest"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have as an opinion":{
"examples":[
"I just feel that we haven't explored all of our options for raising funds"
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"believe",
"conceive",
"consider",
"deem",
"esteem",
"figure",
"guess",
"hold",
"imagine",
"judge",
"reckon",
"suppose",
"think"
],
"near synonyms":[
"regard",
"view",
"accept",
"perceive",
"depend",
"rely",
"trust",
"assume",
"presume",
"presuppose",
"surmise",
"conclude",
"deduce",
"infer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrust",
"doubt",
"mistrust",
"question",
"suspect",
"disbelieve",
"discredit",
"reject"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to search for something blindly or uncertainly":{
"examples":[
"the sudden blackout had us feeling around in the dark for a flashlight"
],
"synonyms":[
"fish",
"fumble",
"grope",
"scrabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grabble",
"cast about",
"hunt",
"look",
"reach",
"seek (out)",
"capture",
"clutch",
"corral",
"get",
"grab",
"nab",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"comb",
"dig (through)",
"dredge",
"rake",
"ransack",
"rifle",
"rummage",
"scour"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give the impression of being":{
"examples":[
"it felt like a good idea at the time"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"appear",
"come across (as)",
"come off (as)",
"look",
"make",
"seem",
"sound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissemble",
"pretend",
"recall",
"resemble",
"suggest",
"hint",
"imply",
"insinuate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an indefinite physical response to a stimulus":{
"examples":[
"the warm feel that fine cashmere gives"
],
"synonyms":[
"feeling",
"sensation",
"sense"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impression",
"perception",
"hint",
"suggestion",
"touch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"feel (out)":{
"as in sound (out)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in study , experiment (with)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feel-good":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"feeler":{
"as in overture":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overture",
"counteroffer",
"counterproposal",
"countersuggestion",
"motion",
"offer",
"proffer",
"proposal",
"proposition",
"suggestion",
"advancement",
"nomination",
"recommendation",
"bid",
"presentation",
"submission",
"submittal",
"tender",
"arrangement",
"game",
"ground plan",
"layout",
"line",
"plan",
"plot",
"project",
"strategy",
"system",
"conception",
"idea",
"notion",
"theory",
"thought"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in question , query":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"query",
"question",
"hearing",
"interrogation",
"trial",
"poll",
"questionary",
"questionnaire",
"survey",
"checkup",
"diagnosis",
"inspection",
"challenge",
"cross-examination",
"going-over",
"grilling",
"quiz",
"audit",
"check",
"rehearing",
"reinvestigation",
"quest",
"self-examination",
"self-exploration",
"self-questioning",
"self-reflection",
"self-scrutiny",
"soul-searching",
"delving",
"disquisition",
"examen",
"examination",
"exploration",
"inquest",
"inquiry",
"inquisition",
"investigation",
"probation",
"probe",
"probing",
"research",
"study"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feeling":{
"a subjective response to a person, thing, or situation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an overall feeling of happiness about their new home"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity",
"unfeelingness"
],
"related":[
"impression",
"perception",
"sensation",
"sense",
"angle",
"attitude",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"standpoint",
"viewpoint",
"belief",
"conviction",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"notion",
"opinion",
"persuasion",
"verdict",
"view",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"responsiveness",
"sensibility",
"sensitiveness",
"sensitivity"
],
"synonyms":[
"chord",
"emotion",
"passion",
"sentiment"
]
},
"an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an interesting think piece in which the congresswoman expressed her feelings about our nation's most pressing problems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fact",
"truth"
],
"related":[
"say",
"impression",
"perception",
"take",
"attitude",
"assumption",
"presumption",
"presupposition",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"determination",
"deliverance",
"esteem",
"estimate",
"estimation",
"credence",
"credit",
"faith",
"concept",
"conception",
"idea",
"thought",
"position",
"stance",
"stand",
"comment",
"obiter dictum",
"observation",
"reflection",
"remark",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"hunch",
"hypothesis",
"surmise",
"theory",
"advice",
"input",
"recommendation",
"suggestion",
"angle",
"outlook",
"perspective",
"shoes",
"slant",
"standpoint",
"viewpoint",
"counterview"
],
"synonyms":[
"belief",
"conviction",
"eye",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"mind",
"notion",
"opinion",
"persuasion",
"sentiment",
"verdict",
"view"
]
},
"an indefinite physical response to a stimulus":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that odd feeling of forward movement you get when the parked car next to you backs out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"impression",
"perception",
"hint",
"suggestion",
"touch"
],
"synonyms":[
"feel",
"sensation",
"sense"
]
},
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"general emotional condition":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a remark that thoughtlessly hurt her feelings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cheer",
"frame",
"humor",
"mode",
"mood",
"spirit",
"temper"
],
"synonyms":[
"heartstrings",
"passions",
"sensibilities"
]
},
"sorrow or the capacity to feel sorrow for another's suffering or misfortune":{
"antonyms":[
"callousness",
"coldheartedness",
"hard-heartedness",
"heartlessness"
],
"examples":[
"a rich person without much feeling for those who are less fortunate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indifference",
"insensitivity",
"unconcern",
"cruelty",
"harshness",
"inhumanity",
"animosity",
"antipathy",
"dislike",
"hatred",
"hostility"
],
"related":[
"condolence",
"regret",
"humaneness",
"humanity",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"mercy",
"pity",
"ruth",
"softheartedness",
"warmheartedness",
"affinity",
"empathy",
"rapport",
"sensitivity",
"understanding",
"altruism",
"benevolence",
"benignity",
"bigheartedness",
"charity",
"generosity",
"goodwill",
"humanitarianism",
"largeheartedness",
"largesse",
"largess",
"magnanimity",
"philanthropy"
],
"synonyms":[
"commiseration",
"compassion",
"sympathy"
]
},
"the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune":{
"antonyms":[
"coldheartedness",
"hard-heartedness",
"inhumanity",
"inhumanness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness"
],
"examples":[
"a woman of great feeling , the princess wanted to use her status and influence to help the needy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callousness",
"coldness",
"disinterest",
"indifference",
"unconcern",
"cruelty",
"harshness",
"animosity",
"antipathy",
"dislike",
"hatred",
"hostility"
],
"related":[
"feelings",
"responsiveness",
"sensibility",
"sensitivity",
"affection",
"love",
"regard",
"affinity",
"empathy",
"rapport",
"altruism",
"benevolence",
"benignancy",
"benignity",
"generosity",
"goodwill",
"humaneness",
"humanism",
"humanitarianism",
"philanthropy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bigheartedness",
"charity",
"commiseration",
"compassion",
"good-heartedness",
"heart",
"humanity",
"kindheartedness",
"kindliness",
"kindness",
"largeheartedness",
"mercy",
"pity",
"ruth",
"softheartedness",
"sympathy",
"warmheartedness"
]
},
"to come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"feel this blanket and perceive how soft it is"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"caressing",
"embracing",
"fingering",
"fondling",
"hugging",
"kissing",
"lipping",
"nosing",
"nudging",
"nuzzling",
"pawing",
"rubbing",
"stroking",
"palpating",
"palping",
"brushing",
"grazing",
"shaving",
"skimming",
"clasping",
"clenching",
"clinging (to)",
"clutching",
"grasping",
"gripping",
"handling",
"holding",
"palming",
"chucking",
"clapping",
"dabbing",
"flicking",
"patting",
"tagging",
"tapping",
"tipping",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"pounding",
"rapping",
"whacking"
],
"synonyms":[
"touching"
]
},
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"with the birth of their first child the couple came to feel true happiness for the first time"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"encountering",
"meeting",
"accepting",
"receiving",
"assimilating",
"digesting"
],
"synonyms":[
"enduring",
"experiencing",
"having",
"knowing",
"passing",
"seeing",
"suffering",
"sustaining",
"tasting",
"undergoing",
"witnessing"
]
},
"to give the impression of being":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"it felt like a good idea at the time"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"dissembling",
"pretending",
"recalling",
"resembling",
"suggesting",
"hinting",
"implying",
"insinuating"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"appearing",
"coming across (as)",
"coming off (as)",
"looking",
"making",
"seeming",
"sounding"
]
},
"to have a vague awareness of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I feel trouble brewing in the town"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"beholding",
"descrying",
"discerning",
"distinguishing",
"espying",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"looking (at)",
"noticing",
"noting",
"observing",
"regarding",
"remarking",
"sighting",
"spying",
"viewing",
"witnessing",
"ascertaining",
"catching on (to)",
"discovering",
"finding out",
"hearing",
"learning",
"realizing",
"anticipating",
"divining",
"expecting",
"foreknowing",
"foreseeing",
"assuming",
"conjecturing",
"guessing",
"presuming",
"speculating",
"supposing",
"surmising",
"suspecting"
],
"synonyms":[
"perceiving",
"scenting",
"seeing",
"sensing",
"smelling",
"tasting"
]
},
"to have as an opinion":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I just feel that we haven't explored all of our options for raising funds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusting",
"doubting",
"mistrusting",
"questioning",
"suspecting",
"disbelieving",
"discrediting",
"rejecting"
],
"related":[
"regarding",
"viewing",
"accepting",
"perceiving",
"depending",
"relying",
"trusting",
"assuming",
"presuming",
"presupposing",
"surmising",
"concluding",
"deducing",
"inferring"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"believing",
"conceiving",
"considering",
"deeming",
"esteeming",
"figuring",
"guessing",
"holding",
"imagining",
"judging",
"reckoning",
"supposing",
"thinking"
]
},
"to search for something blindly or uncertainly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the sudden blackout had us feeling around in the dark for a flashlight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"grabbling",
"casting about",
"hunting",
"looking",
"reaching",
"seeking (out)",
"capturing",
"clutching",
"corralling",
"getting",
"grabbing",
"nabbing",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"combing",
"digging (through)",
"dredging",
"raking",
"ransacking",
"rifling",
"rummaging",
"scouring"
],
"synonyms":[
"fishing",
"fumbling",
"groping",
"scrabbling"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"feeling like":{
"to wish to have":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"This song makes me feel like dancing!"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"grooving (on)",
"loving",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"welcoming",
"coveting",
"craving",
"desiring",
"dying (for)",
"hankering (for or after)",
"wishing (for)",
"yearning (for)"
],
"synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"liking",
"wanting"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"feeling up":{
"as in pawing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pawing",
"billing",
"canoodling",
"cuddling",
"necking",
"nestling",
"nosing",
"nuzzling",
"snuggling",
"spooning",
"cradling",
"embracing",
"enfolding",
"hugging",
"caressing",
"fondling",
"gentling",
"loving",
"patting",
"petting",
"stroking",
"bouncing",
"dandling",
"kneading",
"massaging",
"babying",
"coddling",
"indulging",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feelingly":{
"as in lovingly , thoughtfully":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"feels up":{
"as in paws":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"paws",
"bills",
"canoodles",
"cuddles",
"necks",
"nestles",
"noses",
"nuzzles",
"snuggles",
"spoons",
"cradles",
"embraces",
"enfolds",
"hugs",
"caresses",
"fondles",
"gentles",
"loves",
"pats",
"pets",
"strokes",
"bounces",
"dandles",
"kneads",
"massages",
"babies",
"coddles",
"indulges",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"spoils"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feet":{
"the lowest part, place, or point":{
"examples":[
"the foot of the pedestal"
],
"synonyms":[
"basements",
"bases",
"bottoms",
"nadirs",
"rock bottoms"
],
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"bases",
"bedrocks",
"beds",
"foundations",
"grounds",
"groundworks",
"keystones",
"seats",
"underpinnings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acmes",
"apexes",
"apices",
"climaxes",
"crests",
"culminations",
"heights",
"meridians",
"peaks",
"pinnacles",
"summits",
"tips",
"tip-tops",
"zeniths"
],
"antonyms":[
"heads",
"tops",
"vertices",
"vertexes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feigners":{
"as in shams , pretenders":{
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"bluffers",
"counterfeiters",
"dissemblers",
"pretenders",
"shams",
"charlatans",
"deceivers",
"double-dealers",
"fakers",
"fakes",
"frauds",
"hypocrites",
"impostors",
"imposters",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"fabricators",
"fabulists",
"fibbers",
"liars",
"prevaricators",
"storytellers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"square shooters",
"straight shooters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feigning":{
"as in pretense , hoax":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
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"examples":[
"I would never feign illness just to get out of a test"
],
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"related":[
"dissimulating",
"impersonating",
"letting on",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"forging",
"imitating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"feinting",
"malingering"
],
"synonyms":[
"acting",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"bluffing",
"counterfeiting",
"dissembling",
"faking",
"passing (for)",
"pretending",
"professing",
"putting on",
"shamming",
"simulating"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"feint":{
"a quick movement that you make to trick an opponent":{
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"examples":[
"The boxer made a feint with his right, then followed with a left hook."
],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"feinted":{
"as in":{
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"examples":[],
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"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feistiness":{
"an inclination to fight or quarrel":{
"antonyms":[
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
],
"examples":[
"a panel of political pundits with a well-earned reputation for unfettered feistiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiaggression",
"anti-imperialism",
"antimilitarism",
"affability",
"amiability",
"amicability",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"pleasantness",
"sociability",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness",
"amenability",
"complaisance",
"placability"
],
"related":[
"antagonism",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"hyperaggressiveness",
"unfriendliness",
"imperialism",
"jingoism",
"militarism",
"acidity",
"biliousness",
"captiousness",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"disagreeableness",
"fractiousness",
"fretfulness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"orneriness",
"peevishness",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"surliness",
"testiness",
"waspishness"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"assaultiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"defiance",
"disputatiousness",
"fight",
"militance",
"militancy",
"militantness",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"felicitousness":{
"the quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting":{
"examples":[
"guests remarked on the perfect felicitousness of the rose garden as a site for a June wedding"
],
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"appositeness",
"appropriateness",
"aptness",
"felicity",
"fitness",
"fittingness",
"happiness",
"properness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agreeableness",
"compatibility",
"congruity",
"harmoniousness",
"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"justifiability",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"relevance",
"relevancy",
"validity",
"acceptability",
"adequacy",
"adequateness",
"convenience",
"expedience",
"expediency",
"satisfactoriness",
"serviceableness",
"usefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"inharmoniousness",
"unbecomingness",
"immateriality",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"irrelevancy",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness"
],
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"improperness",
"impropriety",
"inappositeness",
"inappropriateness",
"inaptness",
"infelicity",
"unfitness",
"unseemliness",
"unsuitability",
"wrongness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fell (to)":{
"to take the first step in (a process or course of action)":{
"examples":[
"after some refreshments, she fell to working with renewed vigor"
],
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"began",
"commenced",
"embarked (on or upon)",
"entered (into or upon)",
"got off",
"kicked off",
"launched",
"led off",
"opened",
"started",
"struck (into)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"invented",
"originated",
"adopted",
"embraced",
"took on",
"took up",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"pioneered",
"set up",
"spawned",
"got around (to)",
"got down (to)",
"got round (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ceased",
"desisted",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"knocked off",
"laid off",
"quit",
"quitted",
"stopped",
"closed",
"completed",
"abandoned",
"forsook",
"left",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"exterminated",
"extinguished",
"phased out"
],
"antonyms":[
"concluded",
"ended",
"finished",
"terminated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fell away":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"as the years went by, the public's interest in the murder case fell away"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fell",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"gave out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"showed up",
"blew up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"waxed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fell behind":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"He lost his footing and fell behind in the relay."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"diddled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"lollygagged",
"lallygagged",
"moped",
"poked",
"shilly-shallied",
"tarried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"ambled",
"eased",
"inched",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)",
"filibustered",
"procrastinated",
"stalled",
"temporized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"darted",
"humped",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"scrambled",
"stampeded",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"ran",
"run",
"sprinted",
"trotted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"bolted",
"careered",
"coursed",
"dashed",
"flew",
"hastened",
"hotfooted (it)",
"hurried",
"raced",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"scooted",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"sped",
"speeded",
"tore",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fell down":{
"as in went under":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"went under",
"choked",
"cracked up",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"imploded",
"self-destructed",
"crashed",
"cratered",
"crumbled",
"flamed out",
"declined",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"waned",
"floundered",
"struggled",
"languished",
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"washed out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"went",
"went over",
"worked out",
"caught on",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fellah":{
"as in peasant , peon":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fellowshiping":{
"as in taking , receiving":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fence (in)":{
"to close or shut in by or as if by barriers":{
"examples":[
"fencing in the yard would keep our dog in as well as keep unwanted stray dogs out"
],
"synonyms":[
"box (in)",
"cage",
"closet",
"coop (up)",
"corral",
"encage",
"encase",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"envelop",
"hedge",
"hem (in)",
"house",
"immure",
"include",
"mew (up)",
"pen",
"wall (in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bound",
"circumscribe",
"confine",
"contain",
"limit",
"restrict",
"encircle",
"encompass",
"enfold",
"enframe",
"enlace",
"frame",
"ring",
"surround",
"armor",
"cocoon",
"encapsulate",
"encapsule",
"encyst",
"ensheathe",
"ensphere",
"enwomb"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fencer":{
"as in smuggler , trafficker":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"black marketer",
"black marketeer",
"bootlegger",
"fence",
"hustler",
"scalper",
"smuggler",
"trafficker",
"auctioneer",
"concessionaire",
"discounter",
"distributor",
"e-tailer",
"exporter",
"jobber",
"reseller",
"retailer",
"wholesaler",
"merchant",
"trader",
"tradesman",
"chapman",
"hawker",
"huckster",
"peddler",
"pedlar",
"broker",
"dealer",
"merchandiser",
"seller",
"vendor",
"vender",
"salesclerk",
"salesman",
"salesperson",
"saleswoman",
"shopgirl",
"bargainer",
"haggler",
"horse trader",
"palterer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buyer",
"purchaser",
"consumer",
"end user",
"user"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feral":{
"living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans":{
"examples":[
"animal experts discourage homeowners from trying to adopt feral animals as pets"
],
"synonyms":[
"savage",
"unbroken",
"undomesticated",
"untamed",
"wild",
"wilding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"uncontrolled",
"undocile",
"unsubdued",
"untrained",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"barbarous",
"uncivilized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"controlled",
"docile",
"familiar",
"semidomesticated",
"subdued",
"submissive",
"halterbroken",
"housebroken",
"trained",
"civilized",
"semicivilized",
"socialized"
],
"antonyms":[
"broken",
"busted",
"domestic",
"domesticated",
"gentled",
"tame",
"tamed"
]
},
"having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal":{
"examples":[
"a novel that reveals just how thin the veneer of civilization is and how feral we are at bottom"
],
"synonyms":[
"animalistic",
"beastly",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"ferine",
"subhuman",
"swinish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animal",
"bodily",
"carnal",
"corporal",
"corporeal",
"fleshly",
"physical",
"sensual",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"cruel",
"heartless",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"vicious",
"wanton",
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"lowbred",
"rude",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chivalrous",
"elevated",
"gallant",
"great",
"greathearted",
"high",
"high-minded",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"magnanimous",
"noble",
"sublime",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"spiritual",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"tenderhearted",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"well-bred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in animal , critter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animal",
"beast",
"beastie",
"brute",
"creature",
"critter",
"vertebrate",
"carnivore",
"herbivore",
"insectivore",
"blastie",
"varmint",
"vermin",
"domestic animal",
"pet",
"livestock",
"stock",
"biped",
"quadruped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"invertebrate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"ferine":{
"having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal":{
"examples":[
"the boxer's ferine ferocity in the ring is legendary"
],
"synonyms":[
"animalistic",
"beastly",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brute",
"brutish",
"feral",
"subhuman",
"swinish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animal",
"bodily",
"carnal",
"corporal",
"corporeal",
"fleshly",
"physical",
"sensual",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"cruel",
"heartless",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"vicious",
"wanton",
"coarse",
"crass",
"crude",
"gross",
"ill-bred",
"lowbred",
"rude",
"uncouth",
"uncultivated",
"uncultured",
"unrefined",
"vulgar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chivalrous",
"elevated",
"gallant",
"great",
"greathearted",
"high",
"high-minded",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"magnanimous",
"noble",
"sublime",
"angelic",
"angelical",
"spiritual",
"beneficent",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"softhearted",
"tenderhearted",
"cultivated",
"cultured",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"well-bred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ferment":{
"a disturbed or uneasy state":{
"examples":[
"the city was in ferment as its residents nervously awaited the outcome of the referendum vote"
],
"synonyms":[
"disquiet",
"fermentation",
"restiveness",
"restlessness",
"Sturm und Drang",
"turmoil",
"uneasiness",
"unquietness",
"unrest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fidgets",
"agitation",
"commotion",
"confusion",
"excitement",
"hubbub",
"moil",
"stir",
"storm",
"trouble",
"tumult",
"tumultuousness",
"turbulence",
"upheaval",
"uproar",
"unsettlement",
"disruption",
"perturbation",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"disquietude",
"inquietude",
"queasiness",
"tension",
"unease",
"anarchy",
"chaos",
"disorder",
"welter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"ease",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"quiet",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
]
},
"to bring (something volatile or intense) into being":{
"examples":[
"the various social and economic factors that fermented the major cultural change during the U.S. during the 1960s"
],
"synonyms":[
"abet",
"brew",
"foment",
"incite",
"instigate",
"pick",
"provoke",
"raise",
"stir (up)",
"whip (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advance",
"cultivate",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"sow",
"stimulate",
"detonate",
"set",
"set off",
"trigger",
"excite",
"galvanize",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"inspire",
"motivate",
"rouse",
"activate",
"energize",
"enliven",
"fire",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"liven (up)",
"pep (up)",
"quicken",
"stimulate",
"vitalize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"discourage",
"hold",
"inhibit",
"regulate",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"tame",
"allay",
"calm",
"quiet",
"settle",
"soothe",
"still",
"subdue",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ferreted (out)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"the reporter ferreted out massive evidence of corruption at city hall"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discovered",
"dredged (up)",
"dug out",
"dug up",
"found",
"found out",
"got",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunted (down or up)",
"learned",
"located",
"nosed out",
"ran down",
"rooted (out)",
"routed (out)",
"rummaged",
"scared up",
"scouted (up)",
"tracked (down)",
"turned up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espied",
"sighted",
"spotted",
"looked for",
"searched (for or out)",
"sought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lost",
"mislaid",
"misplaced",
"misset",
"mis-set"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed",
"overlooked",
"passed over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ferreting":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ferrotype":{
"as in daguerreotype , sepia":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"daguerreotype",
"monochrome",
"sepia",
"tintype",
"photo",
"photograph",
"pic",
"print",
"shot",
"snap",
"snapshot",
"blowup",
"close-up",
"enlargement",
"still",
"telephoto"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ferry":{
"to support and take from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"there are shuttle buses to ferry visitors from the parking lots to the fairground"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"carry",
"cart",
"convey",
"haul",
"lug",
"pack",
"tote",
"transport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deliver",
"hand over",
"transfer",
"forward",
"send",
"ship",
"transmit",
"bring",
"fetch",
"take",
"move",
"remove",
"shift"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel on water in a vessel":{
"examples":[
"we're planning to ferry to several islands in the Lesser Antilles"
],
"synonyms":[
"boat",
"cruise",
"navigate",
"sail",
"ship (out)",
"voyage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoe",
"kayak",
"yacht",
"coast"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in taxi , gondola":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"banker",
"coble",
"dragger",
"gillnetter",
"hooker",
"lugger",
"scalloper",
"seiner",
"shrimper",
"trawler",
"whaleboat",
"whaler",
"workboat",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"cockleshell",
"tub",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"airboat",
"air-cushion vehicle",
"hovercraft",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"hydrofoil",
"hydroplane",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fertile":{
"producing abundantly":{
"examples":[
"the fertile mind of Leonardo da Vinci explored art, architecture, engineering, mathematics, and many other fields"
],
"synonyms":[
"cornucopian",
"fat",
"fecund",
"fructuous",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"prolific",
"rich"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"generative",
"producing",
"yielding",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"creative",
"inventive",
"original"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meager",
"meagre",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"sparse"
],
"antonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfertile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fertilizing":{
"as in larding":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"larding",
"enriching",
"fortifying",
"richening",
"strengthening",
"augmenting",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"supplementing",
"decontaminating",
"purifying",
"clarifying",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"distilling",
"filtering",
"flushing",
"leaching",
"pasteurizing",
"purging",
"refining",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"improving",
"compacting",
"concentrating",
"condensing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adulterating",
"cutting",
"diluting",
"extending",
"lacing",
"sophisticating",
"thinning",
"watering down",
"weakening",
"loading",
"befouling",
"contaminating",
"corrupting",
"defiling",
"dirtying",
"envenoming",
"fouling",
"infecting",
"poisoning",
"polluting",
"soiling",
"spoiling",
"sullying",
"tainting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fervency":{
"depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"the guest soloist was able to infuse the familiar hymn with a moving fervency"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardency",
"ardor",
"emotion",
"enthusiasm",
"fervidness",
"fervor",
"fire",
"heat",
"intenseness",
"intensity",
"passion",
"passionateness",
"vehemence",
"violence",
"warmth",
"white heat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cathexis",
"emotionalism",
"emotionality",
"histrionics",
"mawkishness",
"melodrama",
"sappiness",
"sentimentality",
"eagerness",
"earnestness",
"excitement",
"gusto",
"keenness",
"zest",
"fanaticism",
"fever",
"hot-bloodedness",
"infatuation",
"mania",
"obsession",
"zeal",
"compassion",
"responsiveness",
"sentiment",
"sympathy",
"tenderness",
"torridity",
"torridness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloofness",
"calmness",
"collectedness",
"composure",
"detachedness",
"dryness",
"phlegm",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"reticence",
"taciturnity",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"stoicism",
"stoniness",
"unconcern",
"stiffness",
"woodenness",
"chilliness",
"coldness",
"coolness",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[
"impassiveness",
"impassivity",
"insensibility",
"insensibleness",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fervid":{
"having or expressing great depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"at the school board meeting the librarian delivered a fervid speech defending the classic novel against would-be censors"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"charged",
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"fervent",
"feverish",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"glowing",
"hot-blooded",
"impassioned",
"incandescent",
"intense",
"passional",
"passionate",
"perfervid",
"red-hot",
"religious",
"superheated",
"torrid",
"vehement",
"warm",
"warm-blooded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushing",
"gushy",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"sugary",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"enthusiastic",
"gung ho",
"keen",
"zealous",
"enamored",
"infatuated",
"obsessed",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"frenzied",
"orgiastic",
"overemotional",
"overexcited",
"overheated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"dry",
"impersonal",
"objective",
"reserved",
"undemonstrative"
],
"antonyms":[
"cold",
"cool",
"dispassionate",
"emotionless",
"impassive",
"unemotional"
]
},
"having a notably high temperature":{
"examples":[
"the fervid sands of the desert"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"glowing",
"igneous",
"molten",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmish",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill",
"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"benumbed",
"numb",
"shivering"
],
"antonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fess (up)":{
"to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly":{
"examples":[
"he fessed up to breaking the antique vase only after his guilt was obvious"
],
"synonyms":[
"acknowledge",
"admit",
"agree",
"allow",
"concede",
"confess",
"grant",
"own (up to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disburden",
"unburden",
"unload",
"affirm",
"avow",
"confirm",
"profess",
"accept",
"recognize",
"yield",
"announce",
"break",
"broadcast",
"communicate",
"declare",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"impart",
"proclaim",
"publish",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell",
"unveil",
"betray",
"blab",
"expose",
"give away",
"inform",
"leak",
"rat",
"squeal",
"talk",
"tattle",
"tip (off)",
"warn",
"wise (up)",
"breathe",
"say",
"whisper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disallow",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"contradict",
"dispute",
"gainsay",
"negate",
"negative",
"rebut",
"refute",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"conceal",
"cover (up)",
"hide",
"obscure",
"veil",
"kid (oneself)"
],
"antonyms":[
"deny"
]
},
"to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid":{
"examples":[
"at first he denied everything, but eventually he realized that he had no choice but to fess up"
],
"synonyms":[
"admit",
"confess",
"cop (to)",
"own (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blab",
"talk",
"tattle",
"babble",
"spill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clam up",
"hush",
"quiet (down)",
"shut up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"festivities":{
"a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"year-long festivities will mark the 300th anniversary of the city's founding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"jamborees",
"jollifications",
"jollities",
"merriments",
"merrymakings",
"rejoicings",
"revelries",
"revels",
"exhibitions",
"exhibits",
"expositions",
"fairs",
"shows",
"exercises",
"honors"
],
"synonyms":[
"carnivals",
"celebrations",
"festivals",
"fests",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"fiestas",
"galas",
"jubilees"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fetches":{
"a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end":{
"examples":[
"his latest fetch to win back his girlfriend smacks of desperation"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifices",
"devices",
"dodges",
"flimflams",
"gambits",
"gimmicks",
"jigs",
"juggles",
"knacks",
"plays",
"ploys",
"ruses",
"schemes",
"shenanigans",
"sleights",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"wiles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluffs",
"end runs",
"feints",
"chicaneries",
"cozenages",
"crafts",
"crookeries",
"cunnings",
"deceptions",
"duperies",
"duplicities",
"fakeries",
"juggleries",
"legerdemains",
"skulduggeries",
"skullduggeries",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"frauds",
"gaffs",
"hoaxes",
"shams",
"swindles",
"blinds",
"fronts",
"smoke screens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
"examples":[
"with its standard assortment of chain stores and central food court, the new mall is pretty much the fetch of 1,000 other malls"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter egos",
"carbon copies",
"carbons",
"clones",
"counterparts",
"doppelg\u00e4ngers",
"doppelgangers",
"doubles",
"duplicates",
"duplications",
"facsimiles",
"images",
"likenesses",
"look-alikes",
"matches",
"mirror images",
"pictures",
"replicas",
"ringers",
"spits",
"spitting images",
"twins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Chinese copies",
"effigies",
"portraits",
"portrayals",
"companions",
"fellows",
"mates",
"equals",
"equivalents",
"analogues",
"analogs",
"parallels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antitheses",
"converses",
"opposites",
"reverses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those old toys that we tossed away are now fetching big bucks as antiques"
],
"synonyms":[
"brings",
"costs",
"goes (for)",
"runs",
"sells (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lists (for)",
"amounts (to)",
"comes (to)",
"totals",
"commands",
"exacts",
"asks",
"demands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fetches up":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the driver fetched up the horse-drawn carriage in front of the church"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries on",
"continues",
"follows through (with)",
"keeps (on)",
"keeps up",
"persists",
"runs on",
"advances",
"fares",
"goes along",
"marches",
"moves",
"proceeds",
"progresses",
"wends",
"actuates",
"budges",
"drives",
"goads",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"spurs",
"stirs"
],
"related":[
"baffles",
"balks",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"bottlenecks",
"clogs",
"dams",
"detains",
"hinders",
"holds",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"snags",
"stems",
"concludes",
"cuts off",
"ends",
"terminates",
"calls",
"discontinues",
"suspends",
"chokes off",
"reins (in)",
"represses",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stanches",
"staunches",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"turns back"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrests",
"brings up",
"catches",
"checks",
"draws up",
"halts",
"holds up",
"pulls up",
"stalls",
"stays",
"stills",
"stops"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fetching":{
"having an often mysterious or magical power to attract":{
"examples":[
"the woman's fetching smile has long made the painting a favorite with visitors to the museum"
],
"synonyms":[
"alluring",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charismatic",
"charming",
"elfin",
"enchanting",
"engaging",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"luring",
"magnetic",
"seductive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"arresting",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"galvanic",
"gripping",
"hypnotic",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"riveting",
"spellbinding",
"enticing",
"tantalizing",
"tempting",
"exciting",
"haunting",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"titillating",
"beckoning",
"inviting",
"winning",
"darling",
"delightful",
"pleasant",
"pleasing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boring",
"irksome",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"wearisome",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"distasteful",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"invidious",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"odious",
"offensive",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"drab",
"dreary",
"dull",
"flat",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"leaden",
"monotonous",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous"
],
"antonyms":[
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repelling",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"unalluring"
]
},
"very pleasing to look at":{
"examples":[
"a most fetching outfit in which to go skiing"
],
"synonyms":[
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"attractive",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"drop-dead",
"fair",
"good",
"good-looking",
"goodly",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"likely",
"lovely",
"lovesome",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"seemly",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alluring",
"appealing",
"charming",
"cunning",
"delightful",
"engaging",
"fascinating",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"prepossessing",
"elegant",
"exquisite",
"glorious",
"Junoesque",
"magnificent",
"resplendent",
"splendid",
"statuesque",
"sublime",
"superb",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"radiant",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"personable",
"pleasant",
"presentable",
"chocolate-box",
"prettyish",
"desirable",
"dishy",
"dollish",
"foxy",
"hot",
"luscious",
"nubile",
"pulchritudinous",
"seductive",
"sexy",
"toothsome",
"hunky",
"studly",
"arresting",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"glossy",
"showstopping",
"showy",
"slick",
"snazzy",
"splashy",
"striking",
"zingy",
"photogenic",
"telegenic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"dreadful",
"foul",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"horrible",
"loathsome",
"nasty",
"nauseating",
"objectionable",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"terrible",
"vile",
"unappealing",
"unappetizing",
"unimposing",
"unpleasant",
"unprepossessing",
"frumpish",
"frumpy",
"unbecoming",
"unshapely"
],
"antonyms":[
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"homely",
"ill-favored",
"plain",
"ugly",
"unaesthetic",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"uncute",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly"
]
},
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those old toys that we tossed away are now fetching big bucks as antiques"
],
"synonyms":[
"bringing",
"costing",
"going (for)",
"running",
"selling (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"listing (for)",
"amounting (to)",
"coming (to)",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"commanding",
"exacting",
"asking",
"demanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fete":{
"a social gathering":{
"examples":[
"the heiress wanted to do something with her life other than shuttle from fete to fete"
],
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"bash",
"binge",
"blast",
"blowout",
"do",
"event",
"function",
"get-together",
"party",
"reception",
"shindig"
],
"near synonyms":[
"benefit",
"fund-raiser",
"ball",
"dance",
"formal",
"prom",
"celebration",
"gala",
"occasion",
"bacchanal",
"bacchanalia",
"orgy",
"saturnalia",
"bake",
"clambake",
"cocktail party",
"hen party",
"house party",
"housewarming",
"icebreaker",
"kaffeeklatsch",
"kegger",
"keg party",
"klatch",
"klatsch",
"masquerade",
"meet and greet",
"mixer",
"salon",
"shower",
"social",
"soiree",
"soir\u00e9e",
"stag",
"supper",
"symposium",
"tea",
"tea party"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something":{
"examples":[
"the island's annual fete is a celebration of the daffodil in all of its springtime beauty"
],
"synonyms":[
"carnival",
"celebration",
"fest",
"festival",
"festivity",
"fiesta",
"gala",
"jubilee"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jamboree",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"rejoicing",
"revel",
"revelry",
"exhibit",
"exhibition",
"exposition",
"fair",
"show",
"exercises",
"honors"
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"the returning servicemen and servicewomen were feted with a week's worth of celebrations"
],
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"recognize"
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"cite",
"commend",
"compliment",
"credit",
"thank",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"laud",
"praise",
"tout",
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"cheer",
"hail",
"laureate",
"salute",
"celebrate",
"commemorate",
"memorialize",
"observe",
"congratulate",
"felicitate"
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"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"shame",
"bad-mouth",
"defame",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"boo",
"hiss",
"hoot",
"jeer",
"censure",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"reprobate",
"mock",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"slight"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the heiress wanted to do something with her life other than shuttle from fete to fete"
],
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"affairs",
"bashes",
"binges",
"blasts",
"blowouts",
"dos",
"do's",
"events",
"functions",
"get-togethers",
"parties",
"receptions",
"shindigs"
],
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"benefits",
"fund-raisers",
"balls",
"dances",
"formals",
"proms",
"celebrations",
"galas",
"occasions",
"bacchanalia",
"bacchanals",
"orgies",
"saturnalias",
"bakes",
"clambakes",
"cocktail parties",
"hen parties",
"house parties",
"housewarmings",
"icebreakers",
"kaffeeklatsches",
"keggers",
"keg parties",
"klatches",
"klatsches",
"masquerades",
"meet and greets",
"mixers",
"salons",
"showers",
"socials",
"soirees",
"soir\u00e9es",
"stags",
"suppers",
"symposia",
"symposiums",
"tea parties",
"teas"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"examples":[
"the island's annual fete is a celebration of the daffodil in all of its springtime beauty"
],
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"carnivals",
"celebrations",
"festivals",
"festivities",
"fests",
"fiestas",
"galas",
"jubilees"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jamborees",
"jollifications",
"jollities",
"merriments",
"merrymakings",
"rejoicings",
"revelries",
"revels",
"exhibitions",
"exhibits",
"expositions",
"fairs",
"shows",
"exercises",
"honors"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"examples":[
"the returning servicemen and servicewomen were feted with a week's worth of celebrations"
],
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"honors",
"recognizes"
],
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"acknowledges",
"cites",
"commends",
"compliments",
"credits",
"thanks",
"extols",
"extolls",
"glorifies",
"lauds",
"praises",
"touts",
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"cheers",
"hails",
"laureates",
"salutes",
"celebrates",
"commemorates",
"memorializes",
"observes",
"congratulates",
"felicitates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"shames",
"bad-mouths",
"defames",
"libels",
"maligns",
"slanders",
"boos",
"hisses",
"hoots",
"jeers",
"censures",
"condemns",
"damns",
"denounces",
"reprobates",
"mocks",
"puts down",
"ridicules",
"slights"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fetter":{
"something that limits one's freedom of action or choice":{
"examples":[
"a time-honored tradition is fine as long as it doesn't become a fetter that prevents us from trying something new"
],
"synonyms":[
"check",
"circumscription",
"condition",
"constraint",
"curb",
"limitation",
"restraint",
"restriction",
"stricture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exception",
"proviso",
"qualification",
"reservation",
"stipulation",
"strings",
"ban",
"prohibition",
"proscription"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freedom",
"latitude"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"claims that government regulations are unnecessary fetters that keep him from achieving his business goals"
],
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"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"shackles",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that physically prevents free movement":{
"examples":[
"considered a seat belt a pointless fetter \u2014until one saved his life in an auto accident"
],
"synonyms":[
"band",
"bind",
"bond",
"bracelet",
"chain",
"cuff(s)",
"handcuff(s)",
"irons",
"ligature",
"manacle(s)",
"shackle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captivity",
"confinement",
"constraint",
"curb",
"enchainment",
"enslavement",
"hindrance",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"restraint",
"restriction",
"entanglement",
"net",
"trammel",
"trap",
"collar",
"straitjacket",
"straightjacket",
"fastener",
"hobble",
"hold",
"hold-down",
"holding",
"tie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"museum artifacts that serve as somber reminders of the days when slaves were fettered with irons"
],
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"bind",
"chain",
"enchain",
"enfetter",
"gyve",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"pinion",
"shackle",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bit",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"iron",
"lash",
"secure",
"tie",
"truss",
"attach",
"fasten",
"join",
"link",
"confine",
"constrain",
"curb",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"entangle",
"tangle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"release",
"rescue",
"undo",
"unfasten",
"untangle",
"untie",
"detach",
"disengage"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbind",
"unfetter",
"unshackle"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"the belief that too many rules and restrictions fetter children's creativity"
],
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"clog",
"cramp",
"embarrass",
"encumber",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hog-tie",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"short-circuit",
"stymie",
"tie up",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balk",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"rein",
"restrain",
"bind",
"chain",
"halter",
"leash",
"tether",
"tie",
"arrest",
"brake",
"delay",
"retain",
"retard",
"barricade",
"block",
"blockade",
"roadblock",
"bog (down)",
"mire",
"choke",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"suffocate",
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"stump",
"thwart",
"derail",
"disrupt",
"sabotage",
"muzzle",
"repress",
"suppress",
"confine",
"hedge (in)",
"hem (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"make way",
"open",
"unclog",
"unplug",
"unstop",
"free",
"liberate",
"release",
"untie",
"loosen",
"smooth",
"encourage",
"further",
"promote"
],
"antonyms":[
"aid",
"assist",
"facilitate",
"help"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fetters":{
"something that limits one's freedom of action or choice":{
"examples":[
"a time-honored tradition is fine as long as it doesn't become a fetter that prevents us from trying something new"
],
"synonyms":[
"checks",
"circumscriptions",
"conditions",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"limitations",
"restraints",
"restrictions",
"strictures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exceptions",
"provisos",
"provisoes",
"qualifications",
"reservations",
"stipulations",
"strings",
"bans",
"prohibitions",
"proscriptions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freedoms",
"latitudes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"claims that government regulations are unnecessary fetters that keep him from achieving his business goals"
],
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"balks",
"bars",
"blocks",
"chains",
"clogs",
"cramps",
"crimps",
"deterrents",
"drags",
"embarrassments",
"encumbrances",
"handicaps",
"hindrances",
"holdbacks",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"inhibitions",
"interferences",
"lets",
"manacles",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"shackles",
"stops",
"stumbling blocks",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catches",
"hitches",
"rubs",
"snags",
"barriers",
"blockades",
"blockages",
"brick walls",
"stone walls",
"arrests",
"bits",
"brakes",
"checks",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"hobbles",
"reins",
"restraints",
"embargoes",
"stoppages",
"delays",
"holdups",
"stalls",
"burdens",
"cumbers",
"loads",
"dangers",
"hazards",
"perils",
"reefs",
"adversities",
"difficulties",
"disadvantages",
"drawbacks",
"hardships"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalysts",
"goads",
"impetuses",
"incentives",
"spurs",
"stimulants",
"stimuli",
"advantages",
"breaks",
"edges",
"aids",
"assistances",
"benefits",
"boosts",
"handmaidens",
"handmaids",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that physically prevents free movement":{
"examples":[
"considered a seat belt a pointless fetter \u2014until one saved his life in an auto accident"
],
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"bands",
"binds",
"bonds",
"bracelets",
"chains",
"cuffs",
"handcuffs",
"irons",
"ligatures",
"manacles",
"shackles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captivities",
"confinements",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"enchainments",
"enslavements",
"hindrances",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"restraints",
"restrictions",
"entanglements",
"nets",
"trammels",
"traps",
"collars",
"straitjackets",
"straightjackets",
"fasteners",
"hobbles",
"hold-downs",
"holdings",
"holds",
"ties"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"museum artifacts that serve as somber reminders of the days when slaves were fettered with irons"
],
"synonyms":[
"binds",
"chains",
"enchains",
"enfetters",
"gyves",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"pinions",
"shackles",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bits",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"irons",
"lashes",
"secures",
"ties",
"trusses",
"attaches",
"fastens",
"joins",
"links",
"confines",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"limits",
"restricts",
"entangles",
"tangles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"looses",
"releases",
"rescues",
"undoes",
"unfastens",
"untangles",
"unties",
"detaches",
"disengages"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbinds",
"unfetters",
"unshackles"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"the belief that too many rules and restrictions fetter children's creativity"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogs",
"cramps",
"embarrasses",
"encumbers",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"handicaps",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"hog-ties",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"shackles",
"short-circuits",
"stymies",
"ties up",
"trammels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balks",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"reins",
"restrains",
"binds",
"chains",
"halters",
"leashes",
"tethers",
"ties",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"delays",
"retains",
"retards",
"barricades",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"roadblocks",
"bogs (down)",
"mires",
"chokes",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suffocates",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"stumps",
"thwarts",
"derails",
"disrupts",
"sabotages",
"muzzles",
"represses",
"suppresses",
"confines",
"hedges (in)",
"hems (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clears",
"makes way",
"opens",
"unclogs",
"unplugs",
"unstops",
"frees",
"liberates",
"releases",
"unties",
"loosens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"encourages",
"furthers",
"promotes"
],
"antonyms":[
"aids",
"assists",
"facilitates",
"helps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fettle":{
"a state of being or fitness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a visit to the relatives on the other side of the state revealed them all to be in fine fettle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disorder",
"disrepair"
],
"related":[
"practice",
"practise",
"pass",
"phase",
"stage",
"footing",
"picture",
"posture",
"scene",
"situation",
"status",
"rank",
"standing"
],
"synonyms":[
"condition",
"estate",
"form",
"health",
"keeping",
"kilter",
"nick",
"order",
"repair",
"shape",
"trim"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feud":{
"a long and angry conflict between two people or two groups":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The workers' feud with management concerns health benefits and pay increases.",
"Because of a family feud , they did not see each other for a decade."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fever":{
"a state of wildly excited activity or emotion":{
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"examples":[
"in the fever of a political campaign a lot of things get said that never should have been said"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"repose",
"restfulness",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"still",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness"
],
"related":[
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disorder",
"havoc",
"pandemonium",
"turmoil",
"bedlam",
"bother",
"brouhaha",
"bustle",
"clamor",
"clatter",
"commotion",
"disturbance",
"fuss",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly-burly",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"tempest",
"to-do",
"tumult"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitation",
"deliriousness",
"delirium",
"distraction",
"feverishness",
"flap",
"frenzy",
"furor",
"furore",
"fury",
"hysteria",
"rage",
"rampage",
"uproar"
]
},
"an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning":{
"antonyms":[
"health",
"wellness"
],
"examples":[
"before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"healthiness",
"heartiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"fettle",
"shape"
],
"related":[
"contagion",
"contagious disease",
"contagium",
"infection",
"attack",
"bout",
"fit",
"spell",
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"lameness",
"sickliness",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"unwellness",
"weakness",
"malaise",
"matter",
"pip",
"epidemic",
"pest",
"pestilence",
"plague"
],
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"ail",
"ailment",
"bug",
"complaint",
"complication",
"condition",
"disease",
"disorder",
"distemper",
"distemperature",
"ill",
"illness",
"infirmity",
"malady",
"sickness",
"trouble"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"few":{
"a small number":{
"antonyms":[
"army",
"crowd",
"flock",
"gazillion",
"horde",
"host",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"legion",
"loads",
"many",
"mountain",
"multitude",
"oodles",
"scads",
"thousands",
"zillion"
],
"examples":[
"a few of the songs on the album are good, but most are forgettable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"majority",
"most",
"abundance",
"excess",
"plenty",
"surplus",
"deal",
"gobs",
"heap",
"lot",
"mass",
"much",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"slather",
"slew",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth"
],
"related":[
"minority",
"atom",
"crumb",
"fragment",
"grain",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"particle",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit"
],
"synonyms":[
"couple",
"handful",
"scatter",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling"
]
},
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
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"as in loopy , touched":{
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"near synonyms":[
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"loopy",
"off",
"potty",
"teched",
"tetched",
"touched",
"balmy",
"barmy",
"bats",
"batty",
"bedlam",
"bonkers",
"brainsick",
"bughouse",
"certifiable",
"crackbrained",
"cracked",
"crackers",
"crackpot",
"cranky",
"crazed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"demented",
"deranged",
"fruity",
"gaga",
"haywire",
"insane",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loco",
"loony",
"looney",
"loony tunes",
"looney tunes",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"maniacal",
"maniac",
"mental",
"meshuga",
"meshugge",
"meshugah",
"meshuggah",
"moonstruck",
"non compos mentis",
"nuts",
"nutty",
"psycho",
"psychotic",
"scatty",
"screwy",
"unbalanced",
"unhinged",
"unsound",
"wacko",
"whacko",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"wud",
"aberrant",
"delirious",
"delusional",
"delusionary",
"disordered",
"disturbed",
"neurotic",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoiac",
"paranoic",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"sociopathic",
"eccentric",
"odd",
"oddball",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"queer",
"strange",
"foolish",
"senseless",
"witless",
"irrational",
"unreasonable",
"amok",
"amuck",
"ape",
"ballistic",
"bananas",
"berserk",
"nuclear",
"depressed",
"distracted",
"distraught",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"raving",
"wigged-out",
"fixated",
"monomaniac",
"monomaniacal",
"obsessed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balanced",
"compos mentis",
"sane",
"sound",
"uncrazy",
"clear",
"lucid",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"judicious",
"sensible",
"wise",
"healthy",
"normal",
"well-adjusted",
"unneurotic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fend":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"learned to use humor to fend herself from criticism"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwark",
"cover",
"defend",
"fence",
"forfend",
"guard",
"keep",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"secure",
"shield",
"ward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avert",
"prevent",
"oppose",
"resist",
"withstand",
"battle",
"contend",
"fight",
"war",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save",
"buffer",
"palisade",
"picket",
"wall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombard",
"storm",
"beset",
"besiege",
"overrun",
"capitulate",
"cave",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fearless":{
"feeling or displaying no fear by temperament":{
"examples":[
"skydiving is one sport that tends to attract fearless types"
],
"synonyms":[
"bold",
"brave",
"courageous",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"gutty",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"manful",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"undauntable",
"undaunted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
],
"related":[
"determined",
"firm",
"game",
"gamy",
"gamey",
"gritty",
"plucky",
"resolute",
"Spartan",
"undeterred",
"undismayed",
"unflinching",
"unswerving",
"mettlesome",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"audacious",
"daring",
"dashing",
"hardy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"crazy",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nutty",
"brash",
"brazen",
"daredevil",
"foolhardy",
"heedless",
"hotheaded",
"impetuous",
"imprudent",
"impulsive",
"incautious",
"madcap",
"overbold",
"overconfident",
"rash",
"reckless",
"thoughtless",
"wild",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"precipitate",
"comforted",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"reassured",
"unafraid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffident",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"scary",
"shy",
"skittish",
"timid",
"anxious",
"apprehensive",
"nervous",
"careful",
"cautious",
"heedful",
"prudent",
"unadventurous",
"afraid",
"agitated",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"panicked",
"panic-stricken",
"perturbed",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"terrorized",
"unnerved",
"upset",
"appalled",
"concerned",
"dismayed",
"worried",
"unmanly",
"weak",
"wimpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"chicken",
"chickenhearted",
"chicken-livered",
"coward",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"nerveless",
"poltroon",
"poor-spirited",
"pusillanimous",
"spineless",
"spiritless",
"timorous",
"uncourageous",
"ungallant",
"unheroic",
"weakhearted",
"yellow"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fertility":{
"as in productivity , fecundity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fecundity",
"fruitfulness",
"productiveness",
"productivity",
"prolificacy",
"prolificity",
"prolificness",
"cleverness",
"creativeness",
"creativity",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"ingeniousness",
"ingenuity",
"innovativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality",
"capableness",
"resourcefulness",
"genius",
"giftedness",
"talent",
"fire",
"inspiration",
"muse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dryness",
"dullness",
"dulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fearing":{
"to experience concern or anxiety":{
"examples":[
"her friends feared that she was dating a guy who was all wrong for her"
],
"synonyms":[
"bothering",
"fretting",
"fussing",
"stewing",
"stressing",
"sweating",
"troubling",
"worrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agonizing",
"longing",
"pining",
"yearning",
"chafing",
"despairing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"abiding",
"bearing",
"enduring",
"sticking out",
"stomaching",
"sustaining",
"taking",
"tolerating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fetishize":{
"as in objectify , exemplify":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feeling (out)":{
"as in studying , experimenting (with)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"checking (out)",
"examining",
"experimenting (with)",
"exploring",
"investigating",
"researching",
"studying",
"sampling",
"testing",
"trying (out)",
"resampling",
"retesting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sounding (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sounding (out)",
"interrogating",
"questioning",
"circularizing",
"canvassing",
"canvasing",
"interviewing",
"polling",
"soliciting",
"surveying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reporting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fecund":{
"producing abundantly":{
"examples":[
"the Franklin stove, bifocals, and the lightning rod are just a few of the inventions that we owe to the fecund creativity of Benjamin Franklin"
],
"synonyms":[
"cornucopian",
"fat",
"fertile",
"fructuous",
"fruitful",
"lush",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"prolific",
"rich"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"generative",
"producing",
"yielding",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"plenitudinous",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thriving",
"creative",
"inventive",
"original"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meager",
"meagre",
"scant",
"scanty",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"spare",
"sparse"
],
"antonyms":[
"barren",
"dead",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfertile",
"unfruitful",
"unproductive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"felled":{
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"a champion boxer who was shockingly felled in the first round"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowled (down or over)",
"downed",
"dropped",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"knocked over",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"mowed (down)",
"prostrated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoed",
"knocked out",
"KO'd",
"overthrew",
"threw down",
"toppled",
"banged",
"bashed",
"belted",
"bludgeoned",
"clobbered",
"hammered",
"hit",
"jabbed",
"pasted",
"poked",
"pounded",
"punched",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slogged",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring down by cutting":{
"examples":[
"the settlers began the daunting task of felling the mighty trees that blanketed the island"
],
"synonyms":[
"chopped (down)",
"cut (down)",
"hewed",
"mowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulldozed",
"demolished",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"razed",
"tore down"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"the quest for a cure for malaria, the disease that felled so many during the digging of the Panama Canal"
],
"synonyms":[
"carried off",
"claimed",
"croaked",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"killed",
"slew",
"took"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumped off",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"finished",
"got",
"iced",
"knocked off",
"murdered",
"neutralized",
"offed",
"put away",
"rubbed out",
"scragged",
"snuffed",
"took out",
"wasted",
"whacked",
"annihilated",
"blotted out",
"decimated",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed",
"slaughtered",
"smote",
"assassinated",
"executed",
"martyred",
"terminated",
"euthanized",
"euthanatized",
"put down",
"suicided"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raised",
"restored",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revived",
"nurtured"
],
"antonyms":[
"animated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"featherlight":{
"having little weight":{
"examples":[
"the company has designed a strong but featherlight fiber which it hopes to market to manufacturers of body armor"
],
"synonyms":[
"feathery",
"light",
"lightweight",
"underweight",
"weightless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"little",
"minute",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"wee",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"insubstantial",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"goodly",
"great",
"handsome",
"huge",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"massive",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"voluminous",
"whacking",
"bulky",
"cumbersome",
"unwieldy"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavy",
"hefty",
"leaden",
"overweight",
"ponderous",
"weighty"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fear":{
"the emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger":{
"examples":[
"the sight of the headless horseman filled the schoolmaster with fear"
],
"synonyms":[
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anxiety",
"dread",
"fearfulness",
"fright",
"horror",
"panic",
"scare",
"terror",
"trepidation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"phobia",
"creeps",
"jitters",
"nervousness",
"willies",
"pang",
"qualm",
"twinge",
"agitation",
"apprehension",
"consternation",
"discomposure",
"disquiet",
"funk",
"perturbation",
"concern",
"dismay",
"worry",
"cowardice",
"faintheartedness",
"timidity",
"timorousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"assurance",
"boldness",
"confidence",
"self-assurance",
"self-confidence",
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"fortitude",
"gallantry",
"hardihood",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"stoutness",
"valor",
"audacity",
"guts",
"nerve"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble":{
"examples":[
"fear for her family's safety drove her to seek help from neighbors she hardly knew"
],
"synonyms":[
"agita",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"anxiousness",
"apprehension",
"apprehensiveness",
"care",
"concern",
"concernment",
"disquiet",
"disquietude",
"nervosity",
"nervousness",
"perturbation",
"solicitude",
"sweat",
"unease",
"uneasiness",
"worry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"strain",
"stress",
"tension",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"anguish",
"consternation",
"desperateness",
"desperation",
"discomfort",
"discomposure",
"dismay",
"distraction",
"distress",
"disturbance",
"edginess",
"franticness",
"hand-wringing",
"jitters",
"jumpiness",
"panic",
"tremor",
"angst",
"fearfulness",
"torment",
"upset",
"vexation",
"cold feet",
"doubt",
"dread",
"foreboding",
"incertitude",
"misgiving",
"presentiment",
"suspense",
"uncertainty",
"compunction",
"qualm",
"scruple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"calmness",
"content",
"contentment",
"ease",
"easiness",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"placidity",
"placidness",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"sereneness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"tranquilness",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"relief",
"solace"
],
"antonyms":[
"unconcern"
]
},
"to experience concern or anxiety":{
"examples":[
"her friends feared that she was dating a guy who was all wrong for her"
],
"synonyms":[
"bother",
"fret",
"fuss",
"stew",
"stress",
"sweat",
"trouble",
"worry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agonize",
"long",
"pine",
"yearn",
"chafe",
"despair"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"abide",
"bear",
"endure",
"stick out",
"stomach",
"sustain",
"take",
"tolerate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"featly":{
"moving easily":{
"examples":[
"featly swans gliding silently across the still waters of the lake"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"feline",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lightsome",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"feigns":{
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"I would never feign illness just to get out of a test"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"affects",
"assumes",
"bluffs",
"counterfeits",
"dissembles",
"fakes",
"passes (for)",
"pretends",
"professes",
"puts on",
"shams",
"simulates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulates",
"impersonates",
"lets on",
"masquerades",
"playacts",
"plays",
"poses",
"forges",
"imitates",
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"masks",
"feints",
"malingers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feather beds":{
"as in couches , bunk beds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bunk beds",
"cots",
"couches",
"daybeds",
"four-posters",
"hammocks",
"Murphy beds",
"shakedowns",
"sleigh beds",
"sofa beds",
"sofas",
"studio couches",
"trundle beds",
"water beds",
"bunks",
"dosses",
"hays",
"kips",
"lairs",
"pads",
"racks",
"sacks",
"bedsteads",
"futons",
"futon",
"mattresses",
"pallets",
"bassinets",
"carry-cots",
"cradles",
"cribs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fenced (in)":{
"to close or shut in by or as if by barriers":{
"examples":[
"fencing in the yard would keep our dog in as well as keep unwanted stray dogs out"
],
"synonyms":[
"boxed (in)",
"caged",
"closeted",
"cooped (up)",
"corralled",
"encaged",
"encased",
"enclosed",
"inclosed",
"enveloped",
"hedged",
"hemmed (in)",
"housed",
"immured",
"included",
"mewed (up)",
"penned",
"walled (in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounded",
"circumscribed",
"confined",
"contained",
"limited",
"restricted",
"encircled",
"encompassed",
"enfolded",
"enframed",
"enlaced",
"framed",
"ringed",
"surrounded",
"armored",
"cocooned",
"encapsulated",
"encapsuled",
"encysted",
"ensheathed",
"ensphered",
"enwombed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fetid":{
"having an unpleasant smell":{
"examples":[
"that fetid cheese from Belgium is definitely an acquired taste"
],
"synonyms":[
"foul",
"frowsty",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"funky",
"fusty",
"malodorous",
"musty",
"noisome",
"rank",
"reeking",
"reeky",
"ripe",
"smelly",
"stenchy",
"stinking",
"stinky",
"strong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"putrid",
"rancid",
"skunky",
"stale",
"bad",
"disgusting",
"offensive",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"vile",
"decayed",
"decaying",
"decomposed",
"decomposing",
"rotted",
"rotten",
"rotting",
"spoiled",
"spoiling",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"nasty",
"noxious",
"odiferous",
"odoriferous",
"odorous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flowery",
"fruity",
"spicy",
"woodsy"
],
"antonyms":[
"ambrosial",
"aromatic",
"fragrant",
"perfumed",
"redolent",
"savory",
"savoury",
"scented",
"sweet"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"festers":{
"a small, inflamed swelling of the skin":{
"examples":[
"pus oozed out of the fester"
],
"synonyms":[
"boils",
"hickeys",
"papules",
"pimples",
"pocks",
"pustules",
"whelks",
"zits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackheads",
"blisters",
"milia",
"whiteheads",
"bumps",
"lumps",
"protuberances",
"sores",
"warts",
"weals",
"welts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"a week after the battle the corpses of the fallen were still festering in the fields"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks down",
"corrupts",
"decays",
"decomposes",
"disintegrates",
"fouls",
"molders",
"molds",
"perishes",
"putrefies",
"rots",
"spoils"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sours",
"turns",
"turns off",
"contaminates",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"addles",
"curdles",
"ferments",
"mortifies",
"rusts",
"crumbles",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"descends",
"deteriorates",
"dilapidates",
"sinks",
"withers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ages",
"develops",
"grows",
"matures",
"ripens",
"refreshes",
"renews",
"restores",
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"assembles",
"composes",
"integrates",
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"improves",
"meliorates"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"feasibility":{
"as in possibility , viability":{
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"feasibleness",
"possibility",
"potentiality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"viability",
"credibility",
"plausibility",
"plausibleness",
"liability",
"likelihood",
"probability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"improbability",
"unlikelihood",
"unlikeliness",
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"impracticability",
"impracticality",
"implausibility",
"incredibility",
"incredibleness"
],
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},
"as in usefulness , practicality":{
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"near synonyms":[
"practicality",
"usefulness",
"advantageousness",
"beneficialness",
"profitability",
"opportuneness",
"seasonableness",
"timeliness",
"advisability",
"advisableness",
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"expedience",
"expediency",
"judiciousness",
"prudence",
"wisdom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imprudence",
"inadvisability",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"injudiciousness",
"unwisdom",
"impracticality",
"infeasibility",
"inopportuneness",
"unseasonableness",
"untimeliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"felon":{
"a person who has committed a serious crime":{
"examples":[
"The convicted felon wanted to make amends after his release from jail."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"criminal",
"crook",
"culprit",
"lawbreaker",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"transgressor",
"baddie",
"baddy",
"beast",
"brute",
"caitiff",
"devil",
"evildoer",
"fiend",
"heavy",
"hound",
"knave",
"meanie",
"meany",
"miscreant",
"monster",
"nazi",
"no-good",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"reprobate",
"rogue",
"savage",
"scalawag",
"scallywag",
"scamp",
"scapegrace",
"scoundrel",
"varlet",
"villain",
"wretch",
"villainess",
"sinner",
"trespasser",
"wrongdoer",
"cad",
"heel",
"serpent",
"snake",
"viper",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"desperado",
"outlaw",
"con",
"convict",
"jailbird",
"assassin",
"cutthroat",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gunman",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"racketeer",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"rough",
"rowdy",
"tough",
"loser",
"lowlife",
"ne'er-do-well",
"stinker",
"trash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angel",
"innocent",
"saint",
"hero"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"females":{
"an adult female human being":{
"examples":[
"researchers are looking for females aged 50 to 70 to take part in the study"
],
"synonyms":[
"ladies",
"skirts",
"women"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dames",
"gentlewomen",
"madames",
"mesdames",
"madams",
"senoras",
"se\u00f1oras",
"babes",
"beauties",
"belles",
"damsels",
"dolls",
"gals",
"girls",
"ingenues",
"ing\u00e9nues",
"lasses",
"lassies",
"mademoiselles",
"mesdemoiselles",
"maidens",
"maids",
"misses",
"senoritas",
"se\u00f1oritas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feasting":{
"to entertain with a fancy meal":{
"examples":[
"the returning war heroes were feasted all over the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"banqueting",
"dining",
"junketing",
"regaling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boarding",
"catering",
"feeding",
"provisioning",
"feting",
"f\u00eating",
"honoring",
"recognizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give satisfaction to":{
"examples":[
"feast your eyes on all the fresh flowers at the farmers' market"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreeing (with)",
"contenting",
"delighting",
"gassing",
"gladdening",
"gladding",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"pleasuring",
"rejoicing",
"satisfying",
"suiting",
"warming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"soothing",
"assuaging",
"quenching",
"satiating",
"sating",
"exciting",
"tickling",
"titillating",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"treating",
"captivating",
"charming",
"galvanizing",
"thrilling",
"calming",
"comforting",
"catering (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging",
"coddling",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"roiling",
"steaming up",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"agitating",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"fretting",
"upsetting",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"pestering",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"offending"
],
"antonyms":[
"displeasing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"felicific":{
"as in happy , glad":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blissful",
"glad",
"happy",
"joyous",
"affable",
"amiable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"comfortable",
"gem\u00fctlich",
"genial",
"goodly",
"good-natured",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"kindly",
"personable",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"intoxicating",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"recreative",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"nirvanic",
"rapturous",
"calming",
"comforting",
"soothing",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"alluring",
"attractive",
"desirable",
"enviable",
"inviting",
"relishable",
"tempting",
"agreeable",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty",
"welcome"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeable",
"pleasureless",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unwelcome",
"abominable",
"ghastly",
"god-awful",
"hellish",
"horrid",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revulsive",
"unsavory",
"vile",
"yucky",
"yukky",
"abhorrent",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"odious",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"dull",
"flat",
"insipid",
"irksome",
"stale",
"tedious",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"depressing",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"deplorable",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"regrettable",
"sorrowful",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"exasperating",
"irritating",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"vexing",
"forbidding",
"hostile",
"intimidating",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fellas":{
"an adult male human being":{
"examples":[
"these fellas are the hardest working bunch of players a manager could ever hope to have"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastards",
"blokes",
"bucks",
"cats",
"chappies",
"chaps",
"dudes",
"fellows",
"galoots",
"gentlemen",
"gents",
"guys",
"hombres",
"jacks",
"joes",
"jokers",
"lads",
"males",
"men"
],
"near synonyms":[
"masters",
"misters",
"sirs",
"buddies",
"busters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fearsomeness":{
"as in creepiness , eeriness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"creepiness",
"eeriness",
"fearfulness",
"ghostliness",
"ghoulishness",
"scariness",
"accursedness",
"cursedness",
"deplorableness",
"despicableness",
"detestableness",
"execrableness",
"hatefulness",
"loathsomeness",
"reprehensibleness",
"agony",
"anguish",
"hellishness",
"misery",
"torment",
"torture",
"badness",
"baseness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"diabolicalness",
"evil",
"evilness",
"foulness",
"heinousness",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"invidiousness",
"sinfulness",
"ungodliness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"awfulness",
"dreadfulness",
"frightfulness",
"ghastliness",
"grisliness",
"gruesomeness",
"hideousness",
"horridness",
"horror",
"monstrosity",
"repulsiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeableness",
"delightfulness",
"pleasantness",
"pleasurableness",
"allurement",
"appeal",
"attraction",
"attractiveness",
"desirability",
"desirableness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"felt (for)":{
"to have sympathy for":{
"examples":[
"a reminder that during the holidays we should all feel for those families who have members serving in the military abroad"
],
"synonyms":[
"ached (for)",
"bled (for)",
"commiserated (with)",
"compassionated",
"condoled (with)",
"pitied",
"sympathized (with)",
"yearned (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cared (for)",
"grieved (for)",
"sorrowed (for)",
"loved",
"empathized (with)",
"identified (with)",
"tolerated",
"understood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"disliked",
"hated",
"scorned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"featuring":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"a restaurant featuring an extensive list of American wines to complement its creative American cuisine"
],
"synonyms":[
"accenting",
"accentuating",
"emphasizing",
"foregrounding",
"highlighting",
"illuminating",
"playing up",
"pointing (up)",
"pressing",
"punctuating",
"stressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focusing",
"focussing",
"identifying",
"pinpointing",
"spotlighting",
"advertising",
"boosting",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"publicizing",
"overplaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"toning (down)",
"underemphasizing",
"understating",
"belittling",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasizing",
"playing down"
]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"I can't feature that guy wearing anything other than his usual jeans and T-shirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceiting",
"conceiving",
"conjuring (up)",
"dreaming",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"fancying",
"fantasizing",
"fantasying",
"ideating",
"imaging",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"seeing",
"visioning",
"visualizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreaming",
"stargazing",
"hallucinating",
"re-creating",
"recreating",
"reflecting",
"reliving",
"reminiscing",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"musing",
"pondering",
"ruminating",
"concocting",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"planning",
"projecting",
"foreseeing",
"prefiguring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"felonious":{
"contrary to or forbidden by law":{
"examples":[
"the commission found that while the senator's actions were ethically questionable, they were not felonious"
],
"synonyms":[
"criminal",
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"lawless",
"unlawful",
"wrongful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"evil",
"immoral",
"shameful",
"sinful",
"unethical",
"wicked",
"wrong",
"blamable",
"blameworthy",
"censurable",
"reprehensible",
"banned",
"barred",
"contraband",
"criminalized",
"disallowed",
"discouraged",
"forbidden",
"interdicted",
"outlawed",
"prohibited",
"proscribed",
"adulterine",
"bootleg",
"unauthorized",
"unlicensed",
"unsanctioned",
"under-the-counter",
"under-the-table",
"corrupt",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"villainous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ethical",
"good",
"just",
"principled",
"right",
"righteous",
"virtuous",
"allowed",
"permitted",
"authorized",
"licensed",
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"abetted",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"suggested",
"supported",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly"
],
"antonyms":[
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"feeders":{
"a stream that flows into a larger body of water":{
"examples":[
"the lake has several feeders that have their headwaters near the Canadian border"
],
"synonyms":[
"affluents",
"bayous",
"branches",
"confluents",
"influents",
"tributaries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backwaters",
"brooklets",
"brooks",
"creeks",
"rills",
"rivulets",
"runs",
"streamlets",
"fountainheads",
"heads",
"headstreams",
"headwaters",
"sources"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"distributaries",
"effluents"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feminist":{
"as in egalitarian":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"egalitarian",
"optimist",
"positivist",
"idealist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anti-feminist",
"bigot",
"chauvinist",
"misandrist",
"misogynist",
"sexist",
"cynic",
"misanthrope",
"naysayer",
"pessimist",
"doubter",
"negativist",
"skeptic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feelers":{
"as in overtures":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overtures",
"counteroffers",
"counterproposals",
"countersuggestions",
"counter-suggestions",
"motions",
"offers",
"proffers",
"proposals",
"propositions",
"suggestions",
"advancements",
"nominations",
"recommendations",
"bids",
"presentations",
"submissions",
"submittals",
"tender",
"arrangements",
"games",
"ground plans",
"layouts",
"lines",
"plans",
"plots",
"projects",
"strategies",
"systems",
"conceptions",
"ideas",
"notions",
"theories",
"thoughts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in questions , queries":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"queries",
"questions",
"hearings",
"interrogations",
"trials",
"polls",
"questionaries",
"questionnaires",
"surveys",
"checkups",
"diagnoses",
"inspections",
"challenges",
"cross-examinations",
"goings-over",
"quizzes",
"audits",
"checks",
"rehearings",
"reinvestigations",
"quests",
"self-examinations",
"self-explorations",
"self-questionings",
"self-reflections",
"self-scrutinies",
"soul-searchings",
"disquisitions",
"examens",
"examinations",
"explorations",
"inquests",
"inquiries",
"inquisitions",
"investigations",
"probations",
"probes",
"probings",
"researches",
"studies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feel (for)":{
"to have sympathy for":{
"examples":[
"a reminder that during the holidays we should all feel for those families who have members serving in the military abroad"
],
"synonyms":[
"ache (for)",
"bleed (for)",
"commiserate (with)",
"compassionate",
"condole (with)",
"pity",
"sympathize (with)",
"yearn (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"care (for)",
"grieve (for)",
"sorrow (for)",
"love",
"empathize (with)",
"identify (with)",
"tolerate",
"understand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"dislike",
"hate",
"scorn"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feels like":{
"to wish to have":{
"examples":[
"This song makes me feel like dancing!"
],
"synonyms":[
"cares (for)",
"likes",
"wants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adores",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"grooves (on)",
"loves",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"welcomes",
"covets",
"craves",
"desires",
"dies (for)",
"hankers (for or after)",
"wishes (for)",
"yearns (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fermented":{
"as in sour , curdled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"curdled",
"off",
"rancid",
"rank",
"sour",
"soured",
"sourish",
"turned",
"addled",
"bad",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"putrefied",
"putrid",
"rotten",
"spoiled",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"corroded",
"crumbled",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"disintegrated",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"mildewy",
"moldering",
"moldy",
"putrefying",
"putrescent",
"rotting",
"gangrenous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undecomposed",
"fresh",
"good",
"sweet",
"preserved",
"pristine",
"uncontaminated",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"unspoiled",
"untainted",
"untouched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring (something volatile or intense) into being":{
"examples":[
"the various social and economic factors that fermented the major cultural change during the U.S. during the 1960s"
],
"synonyms":[
"abetted",
"brewed",
"fomented",
"incited",
"instigated",
"picked",
"provoked",
"raised",
"stirred (up)",
"whipped (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"sowed",
"stimulated",
"detonated",
"set",
"set off",
"triggered",
"excited",
"galvanized",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"inspired",
"motivated",
"roused",
"activated",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"fired",
"invigorated",
"jazzed (up)",
"livened (up)",
"pepped (up)",
"quickened",
"stimulated",
"vitalized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"discouraged",
"held",
"inhibited",
"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"tamed",
"allayed",
"calmed",
"quieted",
"settled",
"soothed",
"stilled",
"subdued",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fertilize":{
"as in lard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lard",
"enrich",
"fortify",
"richen",
"strengthen",
"augment",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"supplement",
"decontaminate",
"purify",
"clarify",
"clean",
"cleanse",
"distill",
"distil",
"filter",
"flush",
"leach",
"pasteurize",
"purge",
"refine",
"better",
"enhance",
"improve",
"compact",
"concentrate",
"condense"
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"cut",
"dilute",
"extend",
"lace",
"sophisticate",
"thin",
"water down",
"weaken",
"load",
"befoul",
"contaminate",
"corrupt",
"defile",
"dirty",
"envenom",
"foul",
"infect",
"poison",
"pollute",
"soil",
"spoil",
"sully",
"taint"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[
"a few of the songs on the album are good, but most are forgettable"
],
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"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"scatters",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"minorities",
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"fragments",
"grains",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"particles",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits"
],
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"majorities",
"mosts",
"abundances",
"excesses",
"plenties",
"surpluses",
"deals",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lots",
"masses",
"much",
"pecks",
"piles",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"slathers",
"slews",
"stacks",
"wads",
"wealths"
],
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"armies",
"crowds",
"flocks",
"gazillions",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"legions",
"loads",
"many",
"mountains",
"multitudes",
"oodles",
"scads",
"thousands",
"zillions"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"examples":[
"a felicitous accompaniment to dinner is provided by a pianist on weekends at the restaurant"
],
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"agreeable",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty",
"welcome"
],
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"attractive",
"desirable",
"enviable",
"inviting",
"relishable",
"tempting",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"calming",
"comforting",
"soothing",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"recreative",
"affable",
"amiable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"comfortable",
"gem\u00fctlich",
"genial",
"goodly",
"good-natured",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"kindly",
"personable",
"blissful",
"felicific",
"glad",
"happy",
"joyous",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"intoxicating",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"nirvanic",
"rapturous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominable",
"ghastly",
"god-awful",
"hellish",
"horrid",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revulsive",
"unsavory",
"vile",
"yucky",
"yukky",
"abhorrent",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"odious",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"dull",
"flat",
"insipid",
"irksome",
"stale",
"tedious",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"depressing",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"deplorable",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"regrettable",
"sorrowful",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"exasperating",
"irritating",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"vexing",
"forbidding",
"hostile",
"intimidating",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting"
],
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"disagreeable",
"pleasureless",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unwelcome"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the museum's restaurant is featuring a French menu as a felicitous complement to the current show on French Impressionism"
],
"synonyms":[
"applicable",
"appropriate",
"apt",
"becoming",
"befitting",
"fit",
"fitted",
"fitting",
"good",
"happy",
"meet",
"pretty",
"proper",
"right",
"suitable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condign",
"deserved",
"just",
"justified",
"needed",
"required",
"requisite",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"cut out",
"qualified",
"trained",
"pitch-perfect",
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"decent",
"kosher",
"satisfactory",
"serviceable",
"tolerable",
"correct",
"decorous",
"respectable",
"seemly",
"balanced",
"companionate",
"congruous",
"consonant",
"harmonious",
"rightful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"unqualified",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"untrained",
"inadequate",
"intolerable",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"graceless",
"incorrect",
"indecorous",
"incompatible",
"uncongenial"
],
"antonyms":[
"improper",
"inapplicable",
"inapposite",
"inappropriate",
"inapt",
"incongruous",
"indecent",
"infelicitous",
"malapropos",
"misbecoming",
"unapt",
"unbecoming",
"unbeseeming",
"unfit",
"unfitting",
"unhappy",
"unmeet",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"wrong"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"felons":{
"a person who has committed a serious crime":{
"examples":[
"The convicted felon wanted to make amends after his release from jail."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"criminals",
"crooks",
"culprits",
"lawbreakers",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"transgressors",
"baddies",
"beasts",
"brutes",
"caitiffs",
"devils",
"evildoers",
"fiends",
"heavies",
"hounds",
"knaves",
"meanies",
"miscreants",
"monsters",
"nazis",
"no-goods",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"reprobates",
"rogues",
"savages",
"scalawags",
"scallywags",
"scamps",
"scapegraces",
"scoundrels",
"varlets",
"villains",
"wretches",
"villainesses",
"sinners",
"trespassers",
"wrongdoers",
"cads",
"heels",
"serpents",
"snakes",
"vipers",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"outlaws",
"cons",
"convicts",
"jailbirds",
"assassins",
"cutthroats",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gunmen",
"hoodlums",
"hooligans",
"racketeers",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"roughs",
"rowdies",
"toughs",
"losers",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"ne'er-do-wells",
"stinkers",
"trash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angels",
"innocents",
"saints",
"heroes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fellowship":{
"a friendly relationship marked by ready communication and mutual understanding":{
"examples":[
"the new counselor is eager to develop a trustful fellowship with the troubled teens seeking help at the center"
],
"synonyms":[
"communion",
"rapport",
"rapprochement"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accord",
"agreement",
"concord",
"harmony",
"oneness",
"solidarity",
"togetherness",
"unity",
"affinity",
"empathy",
"sympathy",
"understanding",
"amity",
"chumminess",
"companionship",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"reciprocity",
"symbiosis"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"disgruntlement",
"estrangement",
"coldness",
"cold shoulder",
"distance",
"iciness",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"enmity",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"spite"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest":{
"examples":[
"a fellowship of physicians dedicated to administering medical aid without regard to politics"
],
"synonyms":[
"association",
"board",
"brotherhood",
"chamber",
"club",
"college",
"congress",
"consortium",
"council",
"fraternity",
"guild",
"gild",
"institute",
"institution",
"league",
"order",
"organization",
"society",
"sodality"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collective",
"commune",
"community",
"cooperative",
"alliance",
"bloc",
"camp",
"coalition",
"partnership",
"body",
"cadre",
"group",
"circle",
"clan",
"clique",
"coterie",
"junta",
"junto",
"klatch",
"klatsch",
"lot",
"set",
"crew",
"outfit",
"party",
"squad",
"team",
"branch",
"chapter",
"local",
"faithful",
"fold",
"membership",
"sisterhood",
"sorority",
"cabal",
"camarilla",
"camorra",
"confederacy",
"conspiracy",
"band",
"gang",
"ring",
"cartel",
"combine",
"syndicate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"kindly concern, interest, or support":{
"examples":[
"this music festival would not have been a success without the fellowship of many people in the community"
],
"synonyms":[
"amity",
"benevolence",
"brotherhood",
"charity",
"cordiality",
"cordialness",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"gem\u00fctlichkeit",
"good-fellowship",
"goodwill",
"kindliness",
"neighborliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bonhomie",
"camaraderie",
"collegiality",
"community",
"companionship",
"company",
"comradeship",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"rapprochement",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"communion",
"empathy",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tolerance",
"altruism",
"philanthropy",
"selflessness",
"unselfishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disfavor",
"intolerance",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"enmity",
"hate",
"hatred",
"hostility",
"incivility",
"malice",
"rancor",
"belligerency",
"quarrelsomeness",
"querulousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ill will",
"malevolence",
"venom"
]
},
"the body of people in a profession or field of activity":{
"examples":[
"members of a law firm who violated just about every ethical principle that the legal fellowship holds dear"
],
"synonyms":[
"brotherhood",
"community",
"corps",
"fraternity",
"sodality",
"vocation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calling",
"profession",
"association",
"club",
"federation",
"guild",
"gild",
"organization",
"society"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the feeling of closeness and friendship that exists between companions":{
"examples":[
"the fellowship that exists among members of a college fraternity"
],
"synonyms":[
"brotherhood",
"camaraderie",
"community",
"companionship",
"company",
"comradery",
"comradeship",
"society"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amity",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"friendship",
"goodwill",
"kindliness",
"civility",
"comity",
"concord",
"harmony",
"rapport",
"charity",
"generosity",
"affinity",
"compassion",
"empathy",
"sympathy",
"chumminess",
"familiarity",
"inseparability",
"intimacy",
"nearness",
"affection",
"devotion",
"fondness",
"love"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forlornness",
"loneliness",
"lonesomeness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in take , receive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admit",
"enter",
"receive",
"take",
"entertain",
"welcome",
"confirm",
"ratify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ban",
"bar",
"decline",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"dismiss",
"refuse",
"reject",
"blackball",
"blacklist",
"ostracize",
"banish",
"deport",
"exile",
"expel",
"oust",
"throw out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fetish":{
"something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned":{
"examples":[
"dieting seems to be a fetish with some people"
],
"synonyms":[
"fixation",
"id\u00e9e fixe",
"mania",
"obsession",
"preoccupation",
"prepossession"
],
"near synonyms":[
"monomania",
"complex",
"hang-up",
"problem",
"trip",
"appetite",
"caco\u00ebthes",
"compulsion",
"craving",
"desire",
"drive",
"enthusiasm",
"fascination",
"hankering",
"hunger",
"infatuation",
"itch",
"longing",
"lust",
"passion",
"pining",
"thirst",
"urge",
"yearning",
"yen",
"idiosyncrasy",
"quirk",
"bent",
"disposition",
"inclination",
"leaning",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"predisposition",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathy",
"disinterestedness",
"disregard",
"indifference",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern",
"unconcernedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil":{
"examples":[
"an archaeologist discovering an old animal tooth that may have been worn as a fetish"
],
"synonyms":[
"amulet",
"charm",
"mascot",
"mojo",
"periapt",
"phylactery",
"talisman"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gris-gris",
"grigri",
"juju",
"philter",
"toadstone",
"emblem",
"symbol",
"token",
"totem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curse",
"hex",
"spell"
],
"antonyms":[
"hoodoo",
"jinx"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fencers":{
"as in smugglers , traffickers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"black marketers",
"black marketeers",
"bootleggers",
"fences",
"hustlers",
"scalpers",
"smugglers",
"traffickers",
"auctioneers",
"concessionaires",
"discounters",
"distributors",
"e-tailers",
"exporters",
"jobbers",
"resellers",
"retailers",
"wholesalers",
"merchants",
"traders",
"tradesmen",
"chapmen",
"hawkers",
"hucksters",
"peddlers",
"pedlars",
"brokers",
"dealers",
"merchandisers",
"sellers",
"vendors",
"venders",
"salesclerks",
"salesmen",
"salespeople",
"saleswomen",
"shopgirls",
"bargainers",
"hagglers",
"horse traders",
"palterers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buyers",
"purchasers",
"consumers",
"end users",
"users"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fences":{
"a physical object that blocks the way":{
"examples":[
"the only way to prevent motorists from trying to use that unsafe bridge is to put a fence across the road leading to it"
],
"synonyms":[
"barricades",
"barriers",
"hedges",
"walls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bars",
"pales",
"palings",
"blocks",
"chains",
"clogs",
"crimps",
"deterrents",
"drags",
"embarrassments",
"encumbrances",
"handicaps",
"hindrances",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"inhibitions",
"interferences",
"lets",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"roadblocks",
"stops",
"stumbling blocks",
"trammels",
"fetters",
"hobbles",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"constraints",
"curbs",
"restraints",
"snags",
"buffers",
"bulwarks",
"bumpers",
"cushions",
"dams",
"fenders",
"pads",
"ramparts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doors",
"doorways",
"entrances",
"entranceways",
"entries",
"entryways",
"gates",
"portals",
"breaks",
"gaps",
"passes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"had worked as a bodyguard, fencing a number of pop stars at big events"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarks",
"covers",
"defends",
"fends",
"forfends",
"guards",
"keeps",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"secures",
"shields",
"wards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averts",
"prevents",
"opposes",
"resists",
"withstands",
"battles",
"contends",
"fights",
"wars",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves",
"buffers",
"palisades",
"pickets",
"walls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombards",
"storms",
"besets",
"besieges",
"overruns",
"capitulates",
"caves",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"feces":{
"solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal":{
"examples":[
"examined the animal's feces for signs of intestinal parasites"
],
"synonyms":[
"dirt",
"doo-doo",
"dropping",
"dung",
"excrement",
"excreta",
"ordure",
"poop",
"scat",
"slops",
"soil",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"night soil",
"stool",
"dunghill",
"guano",
"manure",
"midden",
"muck",
"spoor",
"sewage",
"sewerage",
"coprolite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"felt (out)":{
"as in studied , experimented (with)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"checked (out)",
"examined",
"experimented (with)",
"explored",
"investigated",
"researched",
"studied",
"sampled",
"tested",
"tried (out)",
"resampled",
"retested"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sounded (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sounded (out)",
"interrogated",
"questioned",
"circularized",
"canvassed",
"canvased",
"interviewed",
"polled",
"solicited",
"surveyed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reported"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fetidness":{
"as in acridness , fustiness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acridness",
"foulness",
"fustiness",
"malodorousness",
"mustiness",
"odoriferousness",
"odorousness",
"rancidity",
"rankness",
"staleness",
"funk",
"reek",
"stench",
"stink",
"badness",
"vileness",
"dirt",
"dirtiness",
"filth",
"filthiness",
"nastiness",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"emission",
"odor",
"redolence",
"scent",
"sniff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aroma",
"fragrance",
"perfume",
"floweriness",
"lusciousness",
"savoriness",
"spiciness",
"sweetness",
"bouquet",
"ambrosia"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fetiches":{
"something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned":{
"examples":[
"dieting seems to be a fetish with some people"
],
"synonyms":[
"fixations",
"id\u00e9es fixes",
"manias",
"obsessions",
"preoccupations",
"prepossessions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"monomanias",
"complexes",
"hang-ups",
"problems",
"trips",
"appetites",
"caco\u00ebtheses",
"compulsions",
"cravings",
"desires",
"drives",
"enthusiasms",
"fascinations",
"hungers",
"infatuations",
"itches",
"longings",
"lusts",
"passions",
"thirsts",
"urges",
"yearnings",
"yens",
"idiosyncrasies",
"quirks",
"bents",
"dispositions",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathies",
"disregards",
"indifferences",
"insouciances",
"nonchalances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil":{
"examples":[
"an archaeologist discovering an old animal tooth that may have been worn as a fetish"
],
"synonyms":[
"amulets",
"charms",
"mascots",
"mojoes",
"mojos",
"periapts",
"phylacteries",
"talismans"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gris-gris",
"grigri",
"jujus",
"philters",
"toadstones",
"emblems",
"symbols",
"tokens",
"totems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curses",
"hexes",
"spells"
],
"antonyms":[
"hoodoos",
"jinxes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"featherbrains":{
"a silly flighty person":{
"examples":[
"you would not want to have to rely on that featherbrain in an emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"birdbrains",
"cuckoos",
"ditzes",
"featherheads",
"flibbertigibbets",
"nitwits",
"rattlebrains",
"scatterbrains",
"softheads"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fools",
"geese",
"sillies",
"simpletons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"felt":{
"to have a vague awareness of":{
"examples":[
"I feel trouble brewing in the town"
],
"synonyms":[
"perceived",
"saw",
"scented",
"sensed",
"smelled",
"smelt",
"tasted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beheld",
"descried",
"discerned",
"distinguished",
"espied",
"eyed",
"looked (at)",
"noted",
"noticed",
"observed",
"regarded",
"remarked",
"sighted",
"spied",
"viewed",
"witnessed",
"ascertained",
"caught on (to)",
"discovered",
"found out",
"heard",
"learned",
"realized",
"anticipated",
"divined",
"expected",
"foreknew",
"foresaw",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"speculated",
"supposed",
"surmised",
"suspected"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin":{
"examples":[
"feel this blanket and perceive how soft it is"
],
"synonyms":[
"touched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caressed",
"embraced",
"fingered",
"fondled",
"hugged",
"kissed",
"lipped",
"nosed",
"nudged",
"nuzzled",
"pawed",
"rubbed",
"stroked",
"palpated",
"palped",
"brushed",
"grazed",
"shaved",
"skimmed",
"clasped",
"clenched",
"clung (to)",
"clutched",
"grasped",
"gripped",
"handled",
"held",
"palmed",
"chucked",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"dabbed",
"flicked",
"patted",
"tagged",
"tapped",
"tipped",
"hit",
"knocked",
"pounded",
"rapped",
"whacked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it":{
"examples":[
"with the birth of their first child the couple came to feel true happiness for the first time"
],
"synonyms":[
"endured",
"experienced",
"had",
"knew",
"passed",
"saw",
"suffered",
"sustained",
"tasted",
"underwent",
"witnessed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"encountered",
"met",
"accepted",
"received",
"assimilated",
"digested"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have as an opinion":{
"examples":[
"I just feel that we haven't explored all of our options for raising funds"
],
"synonyms":[
"allowed",
"believed",
"conceived",
"considered",
"deemed",
"esteemed",
"figured",
"guessed",
"held",
"imagined",
"judged",
"reckoned",
"supposed",
"thought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"regarded",
"viewed",
"accepted",
"perceived",
"depended",
"relied",
"trusted",
"assumed",
"presumed",
"presupposed",
"surmised",
"concluded",
"deduced",
"inferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrusted",
"doubted",
"mistrusted",
"questioned",
"suspected",
"disbelieved",
"discredited",
"rejected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to search for something blindly or uncertainly":{
"examples":[
"the sudden blackout had us feeling around in the dark for a flashlight"
],
"synonyms":[
"fished",
"fumbled",
"groped",
"scrabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grabbled",
"cast about",
"hunted",
"looked",
"reached",
"sought (out)",
"captured",
"clutched",
"corralled",
"got",
"grabbed",
"nabbed",
"nailed",
"seized",
"snatched",
"combed",
"dredged",
"dug (through)",
"raked",
"ransacked",
"rifled",
"rummaged",
"scoured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give the impression of being":{
"examples":[
"it felt like a good idea at the time"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"appeared",
"came across (as)",
"came off (as)",
"looked",
"made",
"seemed",
"sounded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissembled",
"pretended",
"recalled",
"resembled",
"suggested",
"hinted",
"implied",
"insinuated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fends":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"learned to use humor to fend herself from criticism"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarks",
"covers",
"defends",
"fences",
"forfends",
"guards",
"keeps",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"secures",
"shields",
"wards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averts",
"prevents",
"opposes",
"resists",
"withstands",
"battles",
"contends",
"fights",
"wars",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves",
"buffers",
"palisades",
"pickets",
"walls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombards",
"storms",
"besets",
"besieges",
"overruns",
"capitulates",
"caves",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fetch up":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"the driver fetched up the horse-drawn carriage in front of the church"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"bring up",
"catch",
"check",
"draw up",
"halt",
"hold up",
"pull up",
"stall",
"stay",
"still",
"stop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffle",
"balk",
"block",
"blockade",
"bottleneck",
"clog",
"dam",
"detain",
"hinder",
"hold",
"hold back",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"snag",
"stem",
"conclude",
"cut off",
"end",
"terminate",
"call",
"discontinue",
"suspend",
"choke off",
"rein (in)",
"repress",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stanch",
"staunch",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"turn back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"follow through (with)",
"keep (on)",
"keep up",
"persist",
"run on",
"advance",
"fare",
"go along",
"march",
"move",
"proceed",
"progress",
"wend",
"actuate",
"budge",
"drive",
"goad",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"spur",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feasting (on)":{
"as in drinking (in) , eating (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"devouring",
"drinking (in)",
"eating (up)",
"prizing",
"treasuring",
"valuing",
"doting (on)",
"idolizing",
"admiring",
"appreciating",
"cherishing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"cottoning (to)",
"favoring",
"preferring",
"adoring",
"delighting (in)",
"digging",
"enjoying",
"fancying",
"getting off (on)",
"grooving (on)",
"liking",
"loving",
"rejoicing (in)",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"savoring",
"savouring",
"indulging (in)",
"luxuriating (in)",
"wallowing (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorring",
"abominating",
"detesting",
"disliking",
"hating",
"loathing",
"condemning",
"despising",
"scorning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"festivals":{
"a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something":{
"examples":[
"tourists flock to the town for its annual strawberry festival"
],
"synonyms":[
"carnivals",
"celebrations",
"festivities",
"fests",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"fiestas",
"galas",
"jubilees"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jamborees",
"jollifications",
"jollities",
"merriments",
"merrymakings",
"rejoicings",
"revelries",
"revels",
"exhibitions",
"exhibits",
"expositions",
"fairs",
"shows",
"exercises",
"honors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feverishly":{
"as in desperately , crazily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"agitatedly",
"confusedly",
"crazily",
"desperately",
"haywire",
"skittishly",
"uncontrollably",
"amok",
"amuck",
"berserk",
"berserkly",
"frantically",
"frenetically",
"frenziedly",
"harum-scarum",
"hectically",
"helter-skelter",
"madly",
"pell-mell",
"wild",
"wildly",
"heedlessly",
"hotheadedly",
"recklessly",
"wantonly",
"chaotically",
"riotously",
"tumultuously",
"turbulently",
"aimlessly",
"haphazard",
"haphazardly",
"hit or miss",
"topsy-turvy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmly",
"collectedly",
"composedly",
"coolly",
"cooly",
"imperturbably",
"peacefully",
"placidly",
"self-composedly",
"self-possessedly",
"serenely",
"unconcernedly",
"meekly",
"mildly",
"passively",
"tamely",
"methodically",
"orderly",
"systematically"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in actively , vigorously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"busily",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"spiritedly",
"vehemently",
"vigorously",
"zealously",
"amain",
"arduously",
"assiduously",
"determinedly",
"diligently",
"doggedly",
"hard",
"hardly",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intensively",
"intently",
"laboriously",
"mightily",
"purposefully",
"resolutely",
"sedulously",
"slavishly",
"strenuously",
"continuously",
"ploddingly",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"unabatedly",
"unrelentingly",
"unremittingly",
"ardently",
"attentively",
"conscientiously",
"earnestly",
"exhaustively",
"meticulously",
"painstakingly",
"seriously",
"thoroughly",
"indefatigably",
"tirelessly",
"unflaggingly",
"untiringly",
"wearilessly",
"obstinately",
"stubbornly",
"willfully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casually",
"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"shiftlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"festooning":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"for Valentine's Day the dance hall was festooned with a riot of red hearts and bow-wielding cupids"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorning",
"arraying",
"beautifying",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"blazoning",
"caparisoning",
"decking",
"decorating",
"doing",
"doing up",
"dolling up",
"draping",
"dressing",
"embellishing",
"emblazing",
"embossing",
"enriching",
"fancifying",
"fancying up",
"garnishing",
"glitzing (up)",
"gracing",
"gussying up",
"ornamenting",
"prettying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizing",
"dressing up",
"trapping",
"tricking (out)",
"brightening",
"freshening",
"smartening",
"sprucing (up)",
"bossing",
"chasing",
"braiding",
"embroidering",
"feathering",
"figuring",
"filigreeing",
"filleting",
"flouncing",
"frilling",
"fringing",
"furbelowing",
"garlanding",
"hanging",
"lacing",
"ribboning",
"swagging",
"wreathing",
"appliqu\u00e9ing",
"gilding",
"painting",
"diamonding",
"gemming",
"impearling",
"jeweling",
"jewelling",
"pearling",
"redecorating",
"redoing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"baring",
"denuding",
"dismantling",
"displaying",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"stripping",
"uncovering",
"uglifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishing",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"marring",
"scarring",
"spoiling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feels (out)":{
"as in studies , experiments (with)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"checks (out)",
"examines",
"experiments (with)",
"explores",
"investigates",
"researches",
"studies",
"samples",
"tests",
"tries (out)",
"resamples",
"retests"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sounds (out)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"sounds (out)",
"interrogates",
"questions",
"circularizes",
"canvasses",
"canvases",
"interviews",
"polls",
"solicits",
"surveys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reports"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fess up":{
"to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly":{
"examples":[
"he fessed up to breaking the antique vase only after his guilt was obvious"
],
"synonyms":[
"acknowledge",
"admit",
"agree",
"allow",
"concede",
"confess",
"grant",
"own (up to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disburden",
"unburden",
"unload",
"affirm",
"avow",
"confirm",
"profess",
"accept",
"recognize",
"yield",
"announce",
"break",
"broadcast",
"communicate",
"declare",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"impart",
"proclaim",
"publish",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell",
"unveil",
"betray",
"blab",
"expose",
"give away",
"inform",
"leak",
"rat",
"squeal",
"talk",
"tattle",
"tip (off)",
"warn",
"wise (up)",
"breathe",
"say",
"whisper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disallow",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"contradict",
"dispute",
"gainsay",
"negate",
"negative",
"rebut",
"refute",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"conceal",
"cover (up)",
"hide",
"obscure",
"veil",
"kid (oneself)"
],
"antonyms":[
"deny"
]
},
"to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid":{
"examples":[
"at first he denied everything, but eventually he realized that he had no choice but to fess up"
],
"synonyms":[
"admit",
"confess",
"cop (to)",
"own (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blab",
"talk",
"tattle",
"babble",
"spill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clam up",
"hush",
"quiet (down)",
"shut up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ferrying":{
"to support and take from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"there are shuttle buses to ferry visitors from the parking lots to the fairground"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"carrying",
"carting",
"conveying",
"hauling",
"lugging",
"packing",
"toting",
"transporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delivering",
"handing over",
"transferring",
"forwarding",
"sending",
"shipping",
"transmitting",
"bringing",
"fetching",
"taking",
"moving",
"removing",
"shifting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel on water in a vessel":{
"examples":[
"we're planning to ferry to several islands in the Lesser Antilles"
],
"synonyms":[
"boating",
"cruising",
"navigating",
"sailing",
"shipping (out)",
"voyaging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoeing",
"kayaking",
"yachting",
"coasting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feathered":{
"as in pulled":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pulled",
"poled",
"punted",
"canoed",
"kayaked",
"oared",
"paddled",
"rowed",
"sculled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hung , laced":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"braided",
"embroidered",
"figured",
"filigreed",
"filleted",
"flounced",
"frilled",
"fringed",
"furbelowed",
"garlanded",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"ribboned",
"swagged",
"wreathed",
"bossed",
"chased",
"appliqu\u00e9d",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"painted",
"brightened",
"freshened",
"smartened",
"spruced (up)",
"diamonded",
"gemmed",
"impearled",
"jeweled",
"jewelled",
"pearled",
"accessorized",
"dressed up",
"trapped",
"tricked (out)",
"redecorated",
"redid",
"adorned",
"arrayed",
"beautified",
"bedecked",
"bedizened",
"blazoned",
"caparisoned",
"decked",
"decorated",
"did",
"did up",
"dolled up",
"draped",
"dressed",
"embellished",
"emblazed",
"embossed",
"enriched",
"fancied up",
"fancified",
"festooned",
"garnished",
"glitzed (up)",
"graced",
"gussied up",
"ornamented",
"prettied (up)",
"trimmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"marred",
"scarred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"bared",
"denuded",
"dismantled",
"displayed",
"divested",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"uncovered",
"uglified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ferreting (out)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"the reporter ferreted out massive evidence of corruption at city hall"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"digging out",
"digging up",
"discovering",
"dredging (up)",
"finding",
"finding out",
"getting",
"hitting (on or upon)",
"hunting (down or up)",
"learning",
"locating",
"nosing out",
"rooting (out)",
"routing (out)",
"rummaging",
"running down",
"scaring up",
"scouting (up)",
"tracking (down)",
"turning up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espying",
"sighting",
"spotting",
"looking for",
"searching (for or out)",
"seeking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing",
"mislaying",
"misplacing",
"missetting",
"mis-setting"
],
"antonyms":[
"missing",
"overlooking",
"passing over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fearlessly":{
"in a fearless manner":{
"examples":[
"she had fearlessly backed the teaching of evolution in her school district"
],
"synonyms":[
"boldly",
"bravely",
"courageously",
"dauntlessly",
"doughtily",
"gallantly",
"gutsily",
"heroically",
"intrepidly",
"manfully",
"stalwartly",
"stoutheartedly",
"valiantly",
"valorously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determinedly",
"firmly",
"gamely",
"grittily",
"pluckily",
"resolutely",
"spiritedly",
"spunkily",
"stoutly",
"adventurously",
"audaciously",
"daringly",
"hardily",
"venturesomely",
"venturously",
"self-confidently",
"crazily",
"foolishly",
"insanely",
"brashly",
"brazenly",
"foolhardily",
"heedlessly",
"hotheadedly",
"impetuously",
"imprudently",
"impulsively",
"incautiously",
"overconfidently",
"rashly",
"recklessly",
"thoughtlessly",
"wildly",
"hastily",
"precipitately"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diffidently",
"mousily",
"shyly",
"skittishly",
"timidly",
"anxiously",
"apprehensively",
"nervously",
"carefully",
"cautiously",
"heedfully",
"prudently"
],
"antonyms":[
"cowardly",
"cravenly",
"fearfully",
"pusillanimously",
"spinelessly",
"spiritlessly",
"timorously"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fezes":{
"as in turbans , toques":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball caps",
"berets",
"billycocks",
"birettas",
"boaters",
"bonnets",
"bowlers",
"calottes",
"capuches",
"casques",
"castors",
"cloches",
"cocked hats",
"cowboy hats",
"cowls",
"derbies",
"fedoras",
"garrison caps",
"hard hats",
"helmets",
"helms",
"high hats",
"homburgs",
"hoods",
"kepis",
"k\u00e9pis",
"kufis",
"leghorns",
"miters",
"mitres",
"nightcaps",
"opera hats",
"overseas caps",
"panamas",
"picture hats",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"shakos",
"shakoes",
"silk hats",
"skimmers",
"skullcaps",
"sombreros",
"sou'westers",
"Stetsons",
"stocking caps",
"stovepipes",
"sunbonnets",
"tam-o'-shanters",
"tams",
"ten-gallon hats",
"top hats",
"toppers",
"toques",
"tricornes",
"tricorns",
"turbans",
"zucchettos",
"caps",
"chapeaus",
"chapeaux",
"hats",
"headdresses",
"headgears",
"headpieces",
"lids",
"warbonnets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fended for oneself":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"She knew she would have to fend for herself if she went away to college instead of staying at home."
],
"synonyms":[
"coped",
"did",
"fared",
"got along",
"got by",
"got on",
"made out",
"managed",
"shifted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carried on",
"contrived",
"scraped (by or through)",
"scrounged",
"lasted",
"survived",
"eked out",
"scraped (out)",
"squeezed",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"afforded",
"swung"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"failed",
"fell short",
"fizzled",
"floundered",
"declined",
"petered (out)",
"slumped",
"waned",
"gave up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fells":{
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"a champion boxer who was shockingly felled in the first round"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowls (down or over)",
"downs",
"drops",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"knocks over",
"levels",
"mows (down)",
"prostrates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoes",
"knocks out",
"KOs",
"overthrows",
"throws down",
"topples",
"bangs",
"bashes",
"belts",
"bludgeons",
"clobbers",
"hammers",
"hits",
"jabs",
"pastes",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring down by cutting":{
"examples":[
"the settlers began the daunting task of felling the mighty trees that blanketed the island"
],
"synonyms":[
"chops (down)",
"cuts (down)",
"hews",
"mows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulldozes",
"demolishes",
"flattens",
"levels",
"razes",
"tears down"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"the quest for a cure for malaria, the disease that felled so many during the digging of the Panama Canal"
],
"synonyms":[
"carries off",
"claims",
"croaks",
"destroys",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"kills",
"slays",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumps off",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"finishes",
"gets",
"ices",
"knocks off",
"murders",
"neutralizes",
"offs",
"puts away",
"rubs out",
"scrags",
"snuffs",
"takes out",
"wastes",
"whacks",
"annihilates",
"blots out",
"decimates",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows",
"slaughters",
"smites",
"assassinates",
"executes",
"martyrs",
"terminates",
"euthanizes",
"euthanatizes",
"puts down",
"suicides"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raises",
"restores",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revives",
"nurtures"
],
"antonyms":[
"animates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feted":{
"to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration":{
"examples":[
"the returning servicemen and servicewomen were feted with a week's worth of celebrations"
],
"synonyms":[
"honored",
"recognized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acknowledged",
"cited",
"commended",
"complimented",
"credited",
"thanked",
"extolled",
"glorified",
"lauded",
"praised",
"touted",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"cheered",
"hailed",
"laureated",
"saluted",
"celebrated",
"commemorated",
"memorialized",
"observed",
"congratulated",
"felicitated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"shamed",
"bad-mouthed",
"defamed",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"booed",
"hissed",
"hooted",
"jeered",
"censured",
"condemned",
"damned",
"denounced",
"reprobated",
"mocked",
"put down",
"ridiculed",
"slighted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ferreted":{
"as in dogged , hounded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dogged",
"hawked",
"hounded",
"captured",
"dragged",
"netted",
"snared",
"trapped",
"coursed",
"pursued",
"ran",
"run",
"ran down",
"spoored",
"tracked",
"trailed",
"chased",
"hunted",
"stalked",
"gunned (for)",
"harpooned",
"killed",
"shot",
"poached",
"culled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feedlot":{
"as in yard , stockyard":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"stockyard",
"yard",
"ranch",
"station",
"grassland",
"pampas",
"prairie",
"savanna",
"savannah",
"steppe",
"lea",
"ley",
"pasturage",
"pasture",
"range"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ferried":{
"to support and take from one place to another":{
"examples":[
"there are shuttle buses to ferry visitors from the parking lots to the fairground"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"carried",
"carted",
"conveyed",
"hauled",
"lugged",
"packed",
"toted",
"transported"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delivered",
"handed over",
"transferred",
"forwarded",
"sent",
"shipped",
"transmitted",
"brought",
"fetched",
"took",
"moved",
"removed",
"shifted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel on water in a vessel":{
"examples":[
"we're planning to ferry to several islands in the Lesser Antilles"
],
"synonyms":[
"boated",
"cruised",
"navigated",
"sailed",
"shipped (out)",
"voyaged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canoed",
"kayaked",
"yachted",
"coasted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fermentation":{
"a disturbed or uneasy state":{
"examples":[
"a wave of change followed by a period of social fermentation"
],
"synonyms":[
"disquiet",
"ferment",
"restiveness",
"restlessness",
"Sturm und Drang",
"turmoil",
"uneasiness",
"unquietness",
"unrest"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fidgets",
"agitation",
"commotion",
"confusion",
"excitement",
"hubbub",
"moil",
"stir",
"storm",
"trouble",
"tumult",
"tumultuousness",
"turbulence",
"upheaval",
"uproar",
"unsettlement",
"disruption",
"perturbation",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"disquietude",
"inquietude",
"queasiness",
"tension",
"unease",
"anarchy",
"chaos",
"disorder",
"welter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"order",
"orderliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"calm",
"ease",
"peace",
"peacefulness",
"quiet",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fervent":{
"having or expressing great depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"a fervent speech that called for tolerance and compassion for those who are different"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"charged",
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"fervid",
"feverish",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"glowing",
"hot-blooded",
"impassioned",
"incandescent",
"intense",
"passional",
"passionate",
"perfervid",
"red-hot",
"religious",
"superheated",
"torrid",
"vehement",
"warm",
"warm-blooded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushing",
"gushy",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"sugary",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"enthusiastic",
"gung ho",
"keen",
"zealous",
"enamored",
"infatuated",
"obsessed",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"frenzied",
"orgiastic",
"overemotional",
"overexcited",
"overheated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"dry",
"impersonal",
"objective",
"reserved",
"undemonstrative"
],
"antonyms":[
"cold",
"cool",
"dispassionate",
"emotionless",
"impassive",
"unemotional"
]
},
"having a notably high temperature":{
"examples":[
"in the thick, fervent air of a tropical afternoon, a languor set in"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"glowing",
"igneous",
"molten",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmish",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill",
"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"benumbed",
"numb",
"shivering"
],
"antonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fend (off)":{
"to drive back":{
"examples":[
"the herd fended off attacking hyenas"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat off",
"rebut",
"repel",
"repulse",
"stave off",
"turn away",
"turn back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defy",
"fight",
"hold off",
"oppose",
"resist",
"stand off",
"withstand",
"deflect",
"ward (off)",
"rebuff",
"snub",
"spurn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embrace",
"hail",
"welcome"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feasts (on)":{
"as in drinks (in) , eats (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"devours",
"drinks (in)",
"eats (up)",
"prizes",
"treasures",
"values",
"dotes (on)",
"idolizes",
"admires",
"appreciates",
"cherishes",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships",
"cottons (to)",
"favors",
"prefers",
"adores",
"delights (in)",
"digs",
"enjoys",
"fancies",
"gets off (on)",
"grooves (on)",
"likes",
"loves",
"rejoices (in)",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"savors",
"savours",
"indulges (in)",
"luxuriates (in)",
"wallows (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhors",
"abominates",
"detests",
"dislikes",
"hates",
"loathes",
"condemns",
"despises",
"scorns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"femaleness":{
"as in girlishness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"girlishness",
"femininity",
"feminity",
"muliebrity",
"womanhood",
"womanishness",
"womanliness",
"effeminacy",
"effeteness",
"girlhood",
"maidenhood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"manhood",
"manliness",
"masculinity",
"virility",
"androgyny",
"boyishness",
"mannishness",
"tomboyishness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fended":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"learned to use humor to fend herself from criticism"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarked",
"covered",
"defended",
"fenced",
"forfended",
"guarded",
"kept",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"screened",
"secured",
"shielded",
"warded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averted",
"prevented",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"battled",
"contended",
"fought",
"warred",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved",
"buffered",
"palisaded",
"picketed",
"walled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarded",
"stormed",
"beset",
"besieged",
"overran",
"capitulated",
"caved",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
"antonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fell in with":{
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[
"She quickly fell in with a group of students at her new school."
],
"synonyms":[
"associated",
"chummed",
"companied",
"consociated",
"consorted",
"fraternized",
"hobnobbed",
"hooked up",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"messed around",
"palled (around)",
"ran",
"run",
"sorted",
"traveled",
"travelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliated",
"allied",
"attached",
"banded",
"bonded",
"clubbed",
"collaborated",
"colluded",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"connected",
"cooperated",
"coupled",
"ganged",
"got along",
"got on",
"grouped",
"interrelated",
"joined",
"knotted",
"leagued",
"linked",
"mingled",
"mixed",
"rallied",
"related",
"sided",
"socialized",
"teamed",
"tied",
"wedded",
"wed",
"befriended",
"friended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"cold-shouldered",
"shunned",
"snubbed",
"alienated",
"estranged",
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"split (up)",
"disjoined",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divorced",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be in agreement on every point":{
"examples":[
"The proposal fell right in with our ideas for creating new leadership opportunities."
],
"synonyms":[
"accorded",
"agreed",
"answered",
"checked",
"chorded",
"cohered",
"coincided",
"comported",
"conformed",
"consisted",
"corresponded",
"dovetailed",
"fitted",
"fit",
"harmonized",
"jibed",
"rhymed",
"rimed",
"sorted",
"squared",
"tallied",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"paralleled",
"aligned",
"alined",
"lined up",
"registered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contradicted",
"disputed",
"gainsaid",
"negated",
"nullified",
"clashed",
"conflicted",
"jarred"
],
"antonyms":[
"differed (from)",
"disagreed (with)"
]
},
"to act according to the commands of":{
"examples":[
"She fell in with the strict new regimen with relative ease."
],
"synonyms":[
"adhered (to)",
"complied (with)",
"conformed (to)",
"followed",
"goose-stepped (to)",
"minded",
"obeyed",
"observed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deferred (to)",
"submitted (to)",
"surrendered (to)",
"yielded (to)",
"acceded (to)",
"acquiesced (to)",
"agreed (to)",
"assented (to)",
"attended",
"heard",
"heeded",
"listened (to)",
"marked",
"noted",
"noticed",
"regarded",
"took",
"watched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disobliged",
"challenged",
"dared",
"refused",
"renounced",
"repudiated",
"directed",
"led",
"brushed (off)",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"tuned out",
"winked (at)",
"dismissed",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"shrugged off",
"breached",
"broke",
"infringed",
"transgressed",
"violated",
"derided",
"flouted",
"mocked",
"scoffed (at)",
"scorned",
"mutinied (against)",
"revolted (against)",
"bucked",
"combated",
"combatted",
"contested",
"disputed",
"fought",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"defied",
"disobeyed",
"rebelled (against)"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fetch":{
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"those old toys that we tossed away are now fetching big bucks as antiques"
],
"synonyms":[
"bring",
"cost",
"go (for)",
"run",
"sell (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"list (for)",
"amount (to)",
"come (to)",
"total",
"command",
"exact",
"ask",
"demand"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end":{
"examples":[
"his latest fetch to win back his girlfriend smacks of desperation"
],
"synonyms":[
"artifice",
"device",
"dodge",
"flimflam",
"gambit",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"juggle",
"knack",
"play",
"ploy",
"ruse",
"scheme",
"shenanigan",
"sleight",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"wile"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluff",
"end run",
"feint",
"cheating",
"chicanery",
"cozenage",
"craft",
"crookery",
"cunning",
"deception",
"dupery",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"jugglery",
"legerdemain",
"skulduggery",
"skullduggery",
"subterfuge",
"swindling",
"trickery",
"fraud",
"gaff",
"hoax",
"sham",
"swindle",
"blind",
"front",
"smoke screen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something or someone that strongly resembles another":{
"examples":[
"with its standard assortment of chain stores and central food court, the new mall is pretty much the fetch of 1,000 other malls"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter ego",
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"counterpart",
"doppelg\u00e4nger",
"doppelganger",
"double",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"image",
"likeness",
"look-alike",
"match",
"mirror image",
"picture",
"replica",
"ringer",
"spit",
"spitting image",
"twin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Chinese copy",
"effigy",
"portrait",
"portrayal",
"companion",
"fellow",
"mate",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"analogue",
"analog",
"parallel"
],
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"antithesis",
"converse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"Federal":{
"of or relating to a federation or to its central government":{
"examples":[
"A federal system of government distributes power between a country's central and regional governments.",
"The President, Congress, and the Supreme Court are all part of the federal government of the United States."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"national",
"nationwide",
"civic",
"government",
"governmental",
"domestic",
"internal",
"intestine",
"democratic",
"republican",
"civil",
"public"
],
"near antonyms":[
"communal",
"local",
"municipal",
"regional"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fed , G-man":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fed",
"G-man",
"narc",
"nark",
"plainclothesman",
"shadow",
"tail",
"tracer",
"tracker",
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"investigator",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator",
"shamus",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in militiaman , guardsman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Confederate",
"Continental",
"GI",
"guardsman",
"militiaman",
"minuteman",
"lancer",
"pikeman",
"spearman",
"counterguerrilla",
"counterguerilla",
"guerrilla",
"guerilla",
"irregular",
"paramilitary",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"archer",
"crossbowman",
"combatant",
"noncombatant",
"artilleryman",
"cannoneer",
"gunner",
"mortarman",
"musketeer",
"rifleman",
"lifer",
"veteran",
"warhorse",
"jarhead",
"marine",
"ranger",
"conscript",
"draftee",
"enrollee",
"recruit",
"commando",
"raider"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"feel like":{
"to wish to have":{
"examples":[
"This song makes me feel like dancing!"
],
"synonyms":[
"care (for)",
"like",
"want"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adore",
"delight (in)",
"dig",
"enjoy",
"fancy",
"groove (on)",
"love",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"welcome",
"covet",
"crave",
"desire",
"die (for)",
"hanker (for or after)",
"wish (for)",
"yearn (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fell (off)":{
"to turn away from a straight line or course":{
"examples":[
"the coastline falls off toward the north after you round the bay"
],
"synonyms":[
"arced",
"arched",
"bent",
"bowed",
"crooked",
"curved",
"hooked",
"rounded",
"swept",
"swerved",
"trended",
"wheeled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circled",
"coiled",
"curled",
"curlicued",
"looped",
"spiraled",
"spiralled",
"turned",
"twisted",
"wound",
"winded",
"deviated",
"veered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"straightened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fence":{
"a physical object that blocks the way":{
"examples":[
"the only way to prevent motorists from trying to use that unsafe bridge is to put a fence across the road leading to it"
],
"synonyms":[
"barricade",
"barrier",
"hedge",
"wall"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bar",
"pale",
"paling",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"drag",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"roadblock",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel",
"fetter",
"hobble",
"manacle",
"shackle(s)",
"constraint",
"curb",
"restraint",
"snag",
"buffer",
"bulwark",
"bumper",
"cushion",
"dam",
"fender",
"pad",
"rampart"
],
"near antonyms":[
"door",
"doorway",
"entrance",
"entranceway",
"entry",
"entryway",
"gate",
"portal",
"break",
"gap",
"pass"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"had worked as a bodyguard, fencing a number of pop stars at big events"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwark",
"cover",
"defend",
"fend",
"forfend",
"guard",
"keep",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"secure",
"shield",
"ward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avert",
"prevent",
"oppose",
"resist",
"withstand",
"battle",
"contend",
"fight",
"war",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save",
"buffer",
"palisade",
"picket",
"wall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombard",
"storm",
"beset",
"besiege",
"overrun",
"capitulate",
"cave",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fell back":{
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"resistance from native forces was greater than expected, and the invading army was forced to fall back"
],
"synonyms":[
"backed away",
"dropped back",
"pulled out",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fled",
"flew",
"flinched",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"chickened (out)",
"bowed out",
"backed down",
"backpedaled",
"backtracked",
"climbed down",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"pulled away",
"abandoned",
"departed",
"evacuated",
"left",
"quit",
"quitted",
"vacated",
"went"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearded",
"braved",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"outbraved"
],
"antonyms":[
"advanced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fetors":{
"as in funks , stenches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"funks",
"malodors",
"rancidities",
"reeks",
"stenches",
"stinks",
"ambrosias",
"savors",
"savours",
"spices",
"tangs",
"aromaticities",
"attars",
"ottos",
"bouquets",
"fragrances",
"fragrancies",
"perfumes",
"incenses",
"musks",
"whiffs",
"aromas",
"odors",
"redolences",
"scents",
"smells",
"sniffs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feasters":{
"as in trenchermen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"trenchermen",
"cormorants",
"gluttons",
"gorgers",
"gormandizers",
"gourmands",
"hogs",
"hog",
"overeaters",
"pigs",
"stuffers",
"swillers",
"munchers",
"guzzlers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieters",
"nibblers",
"pickers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feathers":{
"a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common":{
"examples":[
"they are a very sports-minded couple, and most of their friends are of the same feather"
],
"synonyms":[
"breeds",
"classes",
"descriptions",
"genres",
"ilks",
"kidneys",
"kinds",
"likes",
"manners",
"natures",
"orders",
"sorts",
"species",
"strains",
"stripes",
"types",
"varieties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"models",
"samples",
"specimens",
"brackets",
"bunches",
"categories",
"divisions",
"families",
"grades",
"groupings",
"groups",
"lots",
"persuasions",
"ranks",
"sets",
"suites"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion":{
"examples":[
"you're in fine feather today"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheers",
"humors",
"modes",
"moods",
"spirits",
"tempers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angles",
"attitudes",
"mind-sets",
"outlooks",
"perspectives",
"slants",
"standpoints",
"viewpoints",
"emotions",
"feelings",
"hearts",
"passions",
"sentiments",
"strains",
"beliefs",
"convictions",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"minds",
"opinions",
"expressions",
"tones",
"veins",
"characters",
"dispositions",
"identities",
"individualities",
"makeups",
"mettles",
"personalities",
"selfhoods",
"self-identities",
"temperaments",
"sensibilities",
"sensitivities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pulls":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pulls",
"poles",
"punts",
"canoes",
"kayaks",
"oars",
"paddles",
"rows",
"sculls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hangs , laces":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"braids",
"embroiders",
"figures",
"filigrees",
"fillets",
"flounces",
"frills",
"fringes",
"furbelows",
"garlands",
"hangs",
"laces",
"ribbons",
"swags",
"wreathes",
"bosses",
"chases",
"appliqu\u00e9s",
"gilds",
"paints",
"brightens",
"freshens",
"smartens",
"spruces (up)",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"impearls",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"accessorizes",
"dresses up",
"traps",
"tricks (out)",
"redecorates",
"redoes",
"adorns",
"arrays",
"beautifies",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"blazons",
"caparisons",
"decks",
"decorates",
"does",
"does up",
"dolls up",
"drapes",
"dresses",
"embellishes",
"emblazes",
"embosses",
"enriches",
"fancies up",
"fancifies",
"festoons",
"garnishes",
"glitzes (up)",
"graces",
"gussies up",
"ornaments",
"pretties (up)",
"trims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"mars",
"scars",
"spoils",
"simplifies",
"streamlines",
"bares",
"denudes",
"dismantles",
"displays",
"divests",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"strips",
"uncovers",
"uglifies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ferryboat":{
"as in steamship , tanker":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aircraft carrier",
"argosy",
"barge",
"coaster",
"collier",
"containership",
"corvette",
"cruiser",
"cutter",
"destroyer",
"flagship",
"freighter",
"icebreaker",
"ironclad",
"lightship",
"liner",
"man-of-war",
"man-o'-war",
"merchantman",
"merchant ship",
"motor ship",
"packet",
"steamer",
"steamship",
"superliner",
"supertanker",
"tanker",
"trader",
"tramp",
"transport",
"warship",
"watercraft",
"boat",
"keel",
"ship",
"vessel",
"bark",
"barque",
"brig",
"brigantine",
"caravel",
"clipper",
"junk",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"square-rigger",
"tall ship",
"windjammer",
"xebec",
"yacht"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"featherheaded":{
"showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment":{
"examples":[
"a completely featherheaded suggestion that would be best ignored"
],
"synonyms":[
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"fatuous",
"fool",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"inept",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"lunkheaded",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"silly",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boobish",
"brain-dead",
"chowderheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"clueless",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"mindless",
"moronic",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"thoughtless",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"unintelligent",
"vacuous",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"nonrational",
"surd",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
"unsound",
"weak",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"notional",
"buffoonish",
"clownish",
"ill-advised",
"unconsidered",
"unreasoned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainy",
"bright",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"smart",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid",
"well-advised"
],
"antonyms":[
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"feints":{
"a quick movement that you make to trick an opponent":{
"examples":[
"The boxer made a feint with his right, then followed with a left hook."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bluffs",
"end runs",
"artifices",
"devices",
"dodges",
"fetches",
"flimflams",
"gambits",
"gimmicks",
"jigs",
"juggles",
"knacks",
"plays",
"ploys",
"schemes",
"shenanigans",
"sleights",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"wiles",
"contrivances",
"maneuvers",
"ruses",
"subterfuges",
"chicaneries",
"cozenages",
"crafts",
"crookeries",
"cunnings",
"deceptions",
"duperies",
"duplicities",
"fakeries",
"juggleries",
"legerdemains",
"skulduggeries",
"skullduggeries",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"blinds",
"fronts",
"smoke screens"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bluffs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bluffs",
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"masks",
"affects",
"assumes",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"feigns",
"professes",
"puts on",
"shams",
"simulates",
"acts",
"impersonates",
"masquerades",
"playacts",
"plays",
"poses",
"dissembles",
"dissimulates",
"lets on",
"makes out",
"pretends"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"femmes fatales":{
"a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive":{
"examples":[
"an actress who was often cast as cynical, sexy femmes fatales"
],
"synonyms":[
"enchantresses",
"seductresses",
"sirens",
"temptresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beguilers",
"charmers",
"seducers",
"vamps",
"sexpots",
"sex symbols"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feelings":{
"general emotional condition":{
"examples":[
"a remark that thoughtlessly hurt her feelings"
],
"synonyms":[
"heartstrings",
"passions",
"sensibilities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheer",
"frame",
"humor",
"mode",
"mood",
"spirit",
"temper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feet of clay":{
"a defect in character":{
"examples":[
"She was disappointed to discover her role model had his own feet of clay ."
],
"synonyms":[
"demerit",
"dereliction",
"failing",
"fault",
"foible",
"frailty",
"shortcoming",
"sin",
"vice",
"want",
"weakness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blot",
"spot",
"stain",
"blemish",
"deficiency",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"minus",
"nit",
"Achilles' heel",
"soft spot",
"corruption",
"depravity",
"evil",
"immorality",
"sinfulness",
"wickedness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excellence",
"perfection",
"goodness",
"integrity",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"righteousness"
],
"antonyms":[
"merit",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"feds":{
"as in G-men , plainclothesmen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Federals",
"G-men",
"narcs",
"narks",
"plainclothesmen",
"shadows",
"tails",
"tracers",
"trackers",
"detectives",
"dicks",
"gumshoes",
"hawkshaws",
"investigators",
"operatives",
"private detectives",
"private eyes",
"private investigators",
"shamuses",
"sherlocks",
"sleuthhounds",
"sleuths"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"felicitations":{
"best wishes":{
"examples":[
"our heartfelt felicitations on the start of your new business"
],
"synonyms":[
"commendations",
"compliment",
"congratulations",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects"
],
"near synonyms":[
"approval",
"benediction",
"blessing",
"endorsement",
"indorsement",
"acknowledgment",
"acknowledgement",
"citation",
"commendation",
"adulation",
"flattery",
"praise",
"well-wishing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dig",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"insult",
"put-down",
"taunt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"fecundity":{
"as in fertility , productivity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fertility",
"fruitfulness",
"productiveness",
"productivity",
"prolificacy",
"prolificity",
"prolificness",
"cleverness",
"creativeness",
"creativity",
"imagination",
"imaginativeness",
"ingeniousness",
"ingenuity",
"innovativeness",
"invention",
"inventiveness",
"originality",
"capableness",
"resourcefulness",
"genius",
"giftedness",
"talent",
"fire",
"inspiration",
"muse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dryness",
"dullness",
"dulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ferrets":{
"as in dogs , hounds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dogs",
"hawks",
"hounds",
"captures",
"drags",
"nets",
"snares",
"traps",
"courses",
"pursues",
"runs",
"runs down",
"spoors",
"tracks",
"trails",
"chases",
"hunts",
"stalks",
"guns (for)",
"harpoons",
"kills",
"shoots",
"poaches",
"culls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"felines":{
"a small domestic animal known for catching mice":{
"examples":[
"the commercial claims that the product will please the palate of even the most finicky feline"
],
"synonyms":[
"cats",
"house cats",
"kitties",
"moggies",
"pusses",
"pussies",
"pussycats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mousers",
"kits",
"kittens",
"alley cats",
"tabbies",
"gibs",
"tomcats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feed (on, upon, or off)":{
"to seize and eat (something) as prey":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"prey (on or upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chase",
"hunt",
"pursue",
"stalk",
"destroy",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"fell",
"kill",
"slay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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"feeds":{
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"a charity dedicated to feeding the hungry"
],
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"boards",
"caters",
"provisions",
"victuals"
],
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"waits",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"sustains",
"banquets",
"dines",
"feasts",
"regales",
"messes",
"battens",
"fattens",
"fills",
"force-feeds",
"overfeeds",
"surfeits",
"underfeeds",
"hand-feeds",
"spoon-feeds",
"refeeds",
"reprovisions"
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},
"to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption":{
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"all week long colleagues have been feeding me ideas for a magazine article"
],
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"furnishes",
"gives",
"hands",
"hands over",
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"supplies"
],
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"plies (with)",
"administers",
"allocates",
"apportions",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"distributes",
"doles out",
"metes (out)",
"parcels (out)",
"portions",
"prorates",
"assigns",
"cedes",
"deeds",
"makes over",
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],
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"conserves",
"keeps up",
"maintains",
"preserves",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"holds (back)",
"keeps (back)",
"reserves",
"retains",
"withholds"
]
},
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"an all-you-can-eat buffet where families can feed heartily and fairly inexpensively"
],
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"dines",
"eats",
"fares",
"partakes",
"refreshes",
"victuals"
],
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"banquets",
"feasts",
"repasts",
"chows (down)",
"digs in",
"gluts",
"gorges",
"gormandizes",
"overeats",
"overfeeds",
"pigs out",
"grazes",
"nibbles",
"noshes",
"picks",
"snacks",
"boards",
"dines out",
"messes",
"breakfasts",
"lunches",
"sups",
"picnics"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diets",
"fasts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a large fancy meal often accompanied by ceremony or entertainment":{
"examples":[
"the company barbecue was an elaborate feed that was enlivened by country music and dancing"
],
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"banquets",
"dinners",
"feasts",
"regales",
"spreads"
],
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"chow",
"messes",
"repasts",
"tables",
"blowouts",
"carnivals",
"festivals",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"galas",
"parties",
"shindigs",
"festivities",
"barbecues",
"barbeques",
"clambakes",
"cookouts",
"fries",
"luaus",
"roasts",
"buffets",
"luncheons",
"smorgasbords"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"food eaten or prepared for eating at one time":{
"examples":[
"after soccer practice we were all ready for a hot shower and a satisfying feed"
],
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"chow",
"meals",
"menus",
"messes",
"refections",
"repasts",
"tables"
],
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"boards",
"breakfasts",
"buffets",
"collations",
"dinners",
"luncheons",
"lunches",
"refreshments",
"smorgasbords",
"snacks",
"suppers",
"teas",
"bites",
"gulps",
"morsels",
"servings",
"tastes",
"banquets",
"feasts",
"regales",
"spreads",
"bakes",
"barbecues",
"barbeques",
"clambakes",
"cookouts",
"fries",
"fry-ups",
"luaus",
"picnics",
"potlucks",
"roasts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fellowman":{
"as in person , human":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"being",
"body",
"creature",
"human",
"individual",
"mortal",
"party",
"person",
"Homo sapiens",
"humanity",
"humankind",
"man",
"mankind"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feuds":{
"a long and angry conflict between two people or two groups":{
"examples":[
"The workers' feud with management concerns health benefits and pay increases.",
"Because of a family feud , they did not see each other for a decade."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"vendettas",
"altercations",
"argle-bargles",
"arguments",
"argy-bargies",
"battles royal",
"battle royals",
"battles royale",
"battle royales",
"bickers",
"brawls",
"contretemps",
"controversies",
"cross fires",
"disagreements",
"disputes",
"donnybrooks",
"fallings-out",
"falling-outs",
"fights",
"hassles",
"imbroglios",
"kickups",
"misunderstandings",
"quarrels",
"rhubarbs",
"rows",
"scraps",
"set-tos",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"wrangles",
"clashes",
"run-ins",
"skirmishes",
"tangles",
"tussles",
"logomachies",
"attacks",
"contentions",
"dissensions",
"dissentions",
"debates",
"differences",
"disputations",
"fusses",
"objections",
"protestations",
"protests",
"affrays",
"fisticuffs",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"free-for-alls",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"catfights"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fetching up":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"the driver fetched up the horse-drawn carriage in front of the church"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bringing up",
"catching",
"checking",
"drawing up",
"halting",
"holding up",
"pulling up",
"stalling",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffling",
"balking",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"bottlenecking",
"clogging",
"damming",
"detaining",
"hindering",
"holding",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"snagging",
"stemming",
"concluding",
"cutting off",
"ending",
"terminating",
"calling",
"discontinuing",
"suspending",
"choking off",
"reining (in)",
"repressing",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stanching",
"staunching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping (on)",
"keeping up",
"persisting",
"running on",
"advancing",
"faring",
"going along",
"marching",
"moving",
"proceeding",
"progressing",
"wending",
"actuating",
"budging",
"driving",
"goading",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"spurring",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"felicities":{
"something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing":{
"examples":[
"the elderly couple counted their grandchildren as their most cherished felicities"
],
"synonyms":[
"benedictions",
"benefits",
"blessings",
"boons",
"godsends",
"goods",
"mannas",
"windfalls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"graces",
"mercies",
"favors",
"mitzvoth",
"mitzvahs",
"advantages",
"aids",
"assistances",
"gifts",
"help",
"reliefs",
"supports",
"anodynes",
"comforts",
"consolations",
"solaces",
"bonuses",
"extras",
"lagniappes",
"delights",
"joys",
"pleasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hexes",
"hoodoos",
"jinxes",
"bothers",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"disadvantages",
"crosses",
"miseries",
"trials",
"tribulations"
],
"antonyms":[
"afflictions",
"banes",
"curses",
"evils",
"plagues",
"scourges"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fell from grace":{
"to commit an offense":{
"examples":[
"Once a successful entrepreneur, he fell from grace when accounts of his unethical business practices were revealed."
],
"synonyms":[
"erred",
"fell",
"offended",
"sinned",
"strayed",
"transgressed",
"trespassed",
"wandered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breached",
"broke",
"infringed",
"violated",
"backslid",
"lapsed",
"messed up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forgave",
"justified",
"pardoned",
"regretted",
"repented",
"rued"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fewness":{
"as in paucity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"paucity",
"homogeneity",
"homogeneousness",
"likeness",
"sameness",
"similarity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assortment",
"diverseness",
"diversity",
"heterogeneity",
"heterogeneousness",
"manifoldness",
"miscellaneousness",
"multifariousness",
"multiplicity",
"variety",
"variousness",
"disparateness",
"disparity",
"dissimilarity",
"distinction",
"distinctiveness",
"distinctness",
"otherness",
"unlikeness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fellow":{
"a male romantic companion":{
"examples":[
"most of the players were bringing their fellows to the banquet in the clubhouse after the tennis tournament"
],
"synonyms":[
"beau",
"boy",
"boyfriend",
"man",
"old man",
"swain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admirer",
"crush",
"steady",
"gallant",
"suitor",
"wooer",
"beloved",
"darling",
"dear",
"favorite",
"flame",
"honey",
"love",
"lover",
"significant other",
"soul mate",
"spark",
"sparker",
"squeeze",
"sweet",
"sweetheart",
"sweetie",
"sweetie pie",
"valentine",
"fancy man",
"gigolo",
"date",
"escort",
"groom",
"husband",
"fianc\u00e9",
"intended"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person frequently seen in the company of another":{
"examples":[
"the singer's fellows were rumored to have ties to organized crime"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"cohort",
"companion",
"compatriot",
"compeer",
"comrade",
"crony",
"hobnobber",
"mate",
"running mate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colleague",
"coworker",
"equal",
"peer",
"workmate",
"accomplice",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"collaborator",
"confederate",
"half",
"partner",
"buddy",
"chum",
"confidant",
"familiar",
"friend",
"hearty",
"intimate",
"pal",
"countryman",
"classmate",
"housemate",
"messmate",
"playfellow",
"playmate",
"roommate",
"roomie",
"schoolmate",
"shipmate",
"teammate",
"attendant",
"escort",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an adult male human being":{
"examples":[
"what does a fellow have to do to get waited on around here?",
"your son is a bright young fellow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastard",
"bloke",
"buck",
"cat",
"chap",
"chappie",
"dude",
"fella",
"galoot",
"gent",
"gentleman",
"guy",
"hombre",
"jack",
"joe",
"joker",
"lad",
"male",
"man"
],
"near synonyms":[
"master",
"mister",
"sir",
"buddy",
"buster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"either of a pair matched in one or more qualities":{
"examples":[
"one ice skate isn't much good without its fellow"
],
"synonyms":[
"companion",
"half",
"match",
"mate",
"twin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coordinate",
"coequal",
"counterpart",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"like",
"parallel",
"peer",
"rival",
"carbon copy",
"double",
"duplicate",
"facsimile",
"identical twin",
"likeness",
"mirror image",
"replica",
"ringer",
"analogue",
"analog",
"similarity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antipode",
"antithesis",
"contrary",
"converse",
"opposite",
"reverse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value":{
"examples":[
"he is well regarded as a chemist by his fellows in the field"
],
"synonyms":[
"coequal",
"compeer",
"coordinate",
"counterpart",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"like",
"match",
"parallel",
"peer",
"rival"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analogue",
"analog",
"double",
"half",
"mate",
"twin",
"associate",
"colleague",
"companion",
"copartner",
"partner",
"competitor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feckless":{
"not producing the desired result":{
"examples":[
"a well-intentioned but feckless response to the rise in school violence"
],
"synonyms":[
"counterproductive",
"hamstrung",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"inefficacious",
"inefficient",
"inexpedient"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abortive",
"bootless",
"fruitless",
"futile",
"nonproductive",
"pointless",
"profitless",
"unavailing",
"unproductive",
"unprofitable",
"unsuccessful",
"useless",
"worthless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"availing",
"beneficial",
"helpful",
"productive",
"profitable",
"successful",
"useful",
"worthwhile"
],
"antonyms":[
"effective",
"effectual",
"efficacious",
"efficient",
"expedient",
"operant",
"ultraefficient"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fell":{
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"a champion boxer who was shockingly felled in the first round"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowl (down or over)",
"down",
"drop",
"floor",
"knock down",
"knock over",
"level",
"mow (down)",
"prostrate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayo",
"knock out",
"KO",
"overthrow",
"throw down",
"topple",
"bang",
"bash",
"belt",
"bludgeon",
"clobber",
"hammer",
"hit",
"jab",
"paste",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring down by cutting":{
"examples":[
"the settlers began the daunting task of felling the mighty trees that blanketed the island"
],
"synonyms":[
"chop (down)",
"cut (down)",
"hew",
"mow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulldoze",
"demolish",
"flatten",
"level",
"raze",
"tear down"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"the quest for a cure for malaria, the disease that felled so many during the digging of the Panama Canal"
],
"synonyms":[
"carry off",
"claim",
"croak",
"destroy",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"kill",
"slay",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bump off",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"finish",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"murder",
"neutralize",
"off",
"put away",
"rub out",
"scrag",
"snuff",
"take out",
"waste",
"whack",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"decimate",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow",
"slaughter",
"smite",
"assassinate",
"execute",
"martyr",
"terminate",
"euthanize",
"euthanatize",
"put down",
"suicide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive",
"nurture"
],
"antonyms":[
"animate"
]
},
"likely to cause or capable of causing death":{
"examples":[
"planning for the distribution of resources in case of some fell event"
],
"synonyms":[
"baleful",
"deadly",
"deathly",
"fatal",
"killer",
"lethal",
"mortal",
"murderous",
"pestilent",
"terminal",
"vital"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baneful",
"deleterious",
"destructive",
"harmful",
"injurious",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"truculent",
"infectious",
"infective",
"pestilential",
"poisonous",
"sublethal",
"toxic",
"virulent",
"dangerous",
"grave",
"grievous",
"hazardous",
"jeopardizing",
"menacing",
"parlous",
"perilous",
"risky",
"serious",
"threatening",
"ugly",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"bloody",
"internecine",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beneficial",
"restorative",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"alleviative",
"corrective",
"curative",
"remedial",
"tonic",
"advantageous",
"beneficial",
"useful",
"nonpoisonous",
"nontoxic",
"safe"
],
"antonyms":[
"healthful",
"healthy",
"nonfatal",
"nonlethal",
"wholesome"
]
},
"violently unfriendly or aggressive in disposition":{
"examples":[
"a once-mighty nation conquered by a fell and barbarous enemy"
],
"synonyms":[
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"grim",
"savage",
"vicious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argumentative",
"assaultive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"brawly",
"chippy",
"combative",
"confrontational",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"feisty",
"gladiatorial",
"militant",
"pugnacious",
"scrappy",
"warlike",
"bare-knuckle",
"bare-knuckled",
"bare-knuckles",
"blood-and-guts",
"in-your-face",
"take-no-prisoners",
"contentious",
"quarrelsome",
"truculent",
"menacing",
"threatening",
"bestial",
"brute",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"barbaric",
"uncivilized",
"wild",
"heartless",
"implacable",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"relentless",
"ruthless",
"unrelenting",
"wanton",
"bloodthirsty",
"bloody",
"homicidal",
"murdering",
"murderous",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine",
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"voracious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amicable",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"congenial",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hearty",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"compliant",
"submissive",
"tame",
"benign",
"compassionate",
"kind",
"merciful",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"amiable",
"complaisant",
"obliging",
"human",
"humane",
"civilized",
"cultured"
],
"antonyms":[
"gentle",
"mild",
"unaggressive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"ferrets (out)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"the reporter ferreted out massive evidence of corruption at city hall"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertains",
"descries",
"detects",
"determines",
"digs out",
"digs up",
"discovers",
"dredges (up)",
"finds",
"finds out",
"gets",
"hits (on or upon)",
"hunts (down or up)",
"learns",
"locates",
"noses out",
"roots (out)",
"routs (out)",
"rummages",
"runs down",
"scares up",
"scouts (up)",
"tracks (down)",
"turns up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espies",
"sights",
"spots",
"looks for",
"searches (for or out)",
"seeks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses",
"mislays",
"misplaces",
"missets"
],
"antonyms":[
"misses",
"overlooks",
"passes over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feast":{
"a large fancy meal often accompanied by ceremony or entertainment":{
"examples":[
"some 90 Native Americans showed up for the feast put on by the Pilgrims at Plymouth"
],
"synonyms":[
"banquet",
"dinner",
"feed",
"regale",
"spread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chow",
"mess",
"repast",
"table",
"blowout",
"carnival",
"festival",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"gala",
"party",
"shindig",
"festivity",
"barbecue",
"barbeque",
"clambake",
"cookout",
"fry",
"luau",
"roast",
"buffet",
"luncheon",
"smorgasbord"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a source of great satisfaction":{
"examples":[
"the colorful Mardi Gras parade is a feast for the senses"
],
"synonyms":[
"delectation",
"delight",
"gas",
"joy",
"kick",
"manna",
"pleasure",
"treat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"fun",
"recreation",
"comfort",
"relief",
"solace",
"gratification",
"indulgence",
"ambrosia"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an amount or supply more than sufficient to meet one's needs":{
"examples":[
"on the Internet there's a feast of information about this medical condition"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"cornucopia",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"plethora",
"superabundance",
"wealth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adequacy",
"competence",
"competency",
"sufficiency",
"ampleness",
"amplitude",
"liberality",
"excess",
"overdose",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"oversupply",
"redundancy",
"superfluity",
"superfluousness",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"copiousness",
"fecundity",
"fertility",
"fruitfulness",
"opulence",
"richness",
"lavishness",
"luxuriance"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarcity",
"barrenness",
"infertility",
"sterility"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"undersupply"
]
},
"to entertain with a fancy meal":{
"examples":[
"the returning war heroes were feasted all over the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"banquet",
"dine",
"junket",
"regale"
],
"near synonyms":[
"board",
"cater",
"feed",
"provision",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"honor",
"recognize"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give satisfaction to":{
"examples":[
"feast your eyes on all the fresh flowers at the farmers' market"
],
"synonyms":[
"agree (with)",
"content",
"delight",
"gas",
"glad",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"pleasure",
"rejoice",
"satisfy",
"suit",
"warm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"soothe",
"assuage",
"quench",
"sate",
"satiate",
"excite",
"tickle",
"titillate",
"amuse",
"divert",
"entertain",
"treat",
"captivate",
"charm",
"galvanize",
"thrill",
"calm",
"comfort",
"cater (to)",
"humor",
"indulge",
"coddle",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"chafe",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"perturb",
"pique",
"put out",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"steam up",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"agitate",
"distress",
"disturb",
"fret",
"upset",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"affront",
"insult",
"offend"
],
"antonyms":[
"displease"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fences (in)":{
"to close or shut in by or as if by barriers":{
"examples":[
"fencing in the yard would keep our dog in as well as keep unwanted stray dogs out"
],
"synonyms":[
"boxes (in)",
"cages",
"closets",
"coops (up)",
"corrals",
"encages",
"encases",
"encloses",
"incloses",
"envelops",
"hedges",
"hems (in)",
"houses",
"immures",
"includes",
"mews (up)",
"pens",
"walls (in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounds",
"circumscribes",
"confines",
"contains",
"limits",
"restricts",
"encircles",
"encompasses",
"enfolds",
"enframes",
"enlaces",
"frames",
"rings",
"surrounds",
"armors",
"cocoons",
"encapsulates",
"encapsules",
"encysts",
"ensheathes",
"enspheres",
"enwombs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fees":{
"the amount of money that is demanded as payment for something":{
"examples":[
"my dentist's fees seem to increase with every visit"
],
"synonyms":[
"antes",
"charges",
"costs",
"damages",
"figures",
"freights",
"prices",
"price tags"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fair market values",
"market values",
"valuations",
"values",
"asking prices",
"list prices",
"sticker prices",
"price points",
"rates",
"tariffs",
"unit prices",
"carrying charges",
"overcharges",
"service charges",
"service fees",
"surcharges",
"deductions",
"discounts",
"markdowns",
"reductions",
"sales",
"deposits",
"down payments",
"accounts",
"bills",
"checks",
"invoices",
"tabs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with a paying job":{
"examples":[
"the townspeople fee country lasses as housemaids, nurses, and cooks"
],
"synonyms":[
"assumes",
"employs",
"engages",
"hires",
"lays on",
"pays",
"places",
"recruits",
"retains",
"signs (up or on)",
"takes on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reemploys",
"reengages",
"rehires",
"apprentices",
"contracts",
"jobs",
"partners",
"subcontracts",
"enlists",
"advances",
"promotes",
"upgrades",
"keeps (on)",
"headhunts",
"scouts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"furloughs",
"lays off",
"locks out"
],
"antonyms":[
"axes",
"cans",
"discharges",
"dismisses",
"fires",
"sacks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fenced":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"had worked as a bodyguard, fencing a number of pop stars at big events"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulwarked",
"covered",
"defended",
"fended",
"forfended",
"guarded",
"kept",
"protected",
"safeguarded",
"screened",
"secured",
"shielded",
"warded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averted",
"prevented",
"opposed",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"battled",
"contended",
"fought",
"warred",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved",
"buffered",
"palisaded",
"picketed",
"walled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarded",
"stormed",
"beset",
"besieged",
"overran",
"capitulated",
"caved",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
"antonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fertilized":{
"as in rich , enriched":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enriched",
"rich",
"fecund",
"luxuriant",
"productive",
"prolific",
"impregnated",
"pregnant",
"fat",
"fertile",
"fruitful",
"potent",
"bearing",
"producing",
"yielding",
"blooming",
"bursting",
"flourishing",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"barren",
"fruitless",
"impotent",
"infertile",
"sterile",
"unfruitful",
"altered",
"desexed",
"neutered",
"sterilized",
"castrated",
"emasculated",
"gelded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in larded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"larded",
"enriched",
"fortified",
"richened",
"strengthened",
"augmented",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"supplemented",
"decontaminated",
"purified",
"clarified",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"distilled",
"filtered",
"flushed",
"leached",
"pasteurized",
"purged",
"refined",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"improved",
"compacted",
"concentrated",
"condensed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adulterated",
"cut",
"diluted",
"extended",
"laced",
"sophisticated",
"thinned",
"watered down",
"weakened",
"loaded",
"befouled",
"contaminated",
"corrupted",
"defiled",
"dirtied",
"envenomed",
"fouled",
"infected",
"poisoned",
"polluted",
"soiled",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"sullied",
"tainted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"fed up":{
"having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted":{
"examples":[
"fed up with the noise and bustle of the big city, the family decided to try country life"
],
"synonyms":[
"bored",
"jaded",
"sick",
"sick and tired",
"tired",
"wearied",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apathetic",
"disinterested",
"uninterested",
"glutted",
"sated",
"satiated",
"surfeited",
"dejected",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"beat",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"bushed",
"done in",
"drained",
"enervated",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"limp",
"played out",
"tuckered (out)",
"worn-out",
"annoyed",
"exasperated",
"frustrated",
"irritated",
"disgusted",
"nauseated",
"repulsed",
"blas\u00e9",
"blase",
"world-weary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"excited",
"galvanized",
"invigorated",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"amused",
"entertained",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"enthralled",
"fascinated",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"delighted",
"pleased",
"thrilled"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbed",
"engaged",
"engrossed",
"interested",
"intrigued",
"rapt"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fence-sitting":{
"a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of action":{
"examples":[
"in Congress there was a lot of fence-sitting , with many representatives waiting to see which way the political wind was blowing"
],
"synonyms":[
"faltering",
"hesitance",
"hesitancy",
"hesitation",
"indecision",
"irresolution",
"pause",
"shilly-shally",
"shilly-shallying",
"vacillation",
"wavering",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"delay",
"hawing",
"procrastination",
"waiting",
"arri\u00e8re-pens\u00e9e",
"misgiving",
"second thought",
"consideration",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"doubt",
"incertitude",
"indecisiveness",
"indetermination",
"uncertainness",
"uncertainty",
"avoidance",
"equivocation",
"aversion",
"disinclination",
"indisposition",
"reluctance",
"unwillingness",
"faintheartedness",
"shyness",
"timidity",
"timidness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"certainty",
"certitude",
"confidence",
"decisiveness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resoluteness",
"resolution",
"sureness",
"alacrity",
"eagerness",
"readiness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fessed (up)":{
"to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly":{
"examples":[
"he fessed up to breaking the antique vase only after his guilt was obvious"
],
"synonyms":[
"acknowledged",
"admitted",
"agreed",
"allowed",
"conceded",
"confessed",
"granted",
"owned (up to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disburdened",
"unburdened",
"unloaded",
"affirmed",
"avowed",
"confirmed",
"professed",
"accepted",
"recognized",
"yielded",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"broke",
"communicated",
"declared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"imparted",
"proclaimed",
"published",
"revealed",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told",
"unveiled",
"betrayed",
"blabbed",
"exposed",
"gave away",
"informed",
"leaked",
"ratted",
"squealed",
"talked",
"tattled",
"tipped (off)",
"warned",
"wised (up)",
"breathed",
"said",
"whispered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disallowed",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disowned",
"contradicted",
"disputed",
"gainsaid",
"negated",
"negatived",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"concealed",
"covered (up)",
"hid",
"obscured",
"veiled",
"kidded (oneself)"
],
"antonyms":[
"denied"
]
},
"to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid":{
"examples":[
"at first he denied everything, but eventually he realized that he had no choice but to fess up"
],
"synonyms":[
"admitted",
"confessed",
"copped (to)",
"owned (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbed",
"talked",
"tattled",
"babbled",
"spilled",
"spilt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clammed up",
"hushed",
"quieted (down)",
"shut up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feathers in one's cap":{
"an asset that brings praise or renown":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"boasts",
"credits",
"crown jewels",
"glories",
"honors",
"jewels",
"prides",
"treasures",
"trophies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pi\u00e8ces de r\u00e9sistance",
"showpieces",
"attractions",
"features",
"highlights",
"distinctions",
"excellences",
"merits",
"values",
"virtues"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"blemishes",
"blots",
"defects",
"shames",
"slurs",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"stains",
"stigmas",
"stigmata",
"eyesores",
"frights",
"horrors",
"messes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a successful result brought about by hard work":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"acquirements",
"attainments",
"babies",
"coups",
"successes",
"triumphs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"jackpots",
"megahits",
"miracles",
"smashes",
"winners",
"conquests",
"gains",
"victories",
"wins",
"skills",
"deeds",
"feats",
"performances",
"arrivals",
"completions",
"consummations",
"culminations",
"executions",
"fruitions",
"fulfillments",
"fulfilments",
"implementations",
"realizations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"botches",
"cock-ups",
"messes",
"muddles",
"shambles",
"bummers",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"washouts",
"disappointments",
"letdowns",
"losses",
"setbacks"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonachievements"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"fervor":{
"depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"surprised by the fervor that her parents' old love letters contained when she discovered them in the attic"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardency",
"ardor",
"emotion",
"enthusiasm",
"fervency",
"fervidness",
"fire",
"heat",
"intenseness",
"intensity",
"passion",
"passionateness",
"vehemence",
"violence",
"warmth",
"white heat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cathexis",
"emotionalism",
"emotionality",
"histrionics",
"mawkishness",
"melodrama",
"sappiness",
"sentimentality",
"eagerness",
"earnestness",
"excitement",
"gusto",
"keenness",
"zest",
"fanaticism",
"fever",
"hot-bloodedness",
"infatuation",
"mania",
"obsession",
"zeal",
"compassion",
"responsiveness",
"sentiment",
"sympathy",
"tenderness",
"torridity",
"torridness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloofness",
"calmness",
"collectedness",
"composure",
"detachedness",
"dryness",
"phlegm",
"reserve",
"reservedness",
"reticence",
"taciturnity",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"stoicism",
"stoniness",
"unconcern",
"stiffness",
"woodenness",
"chilliness",
"coldness",
"coolness",
"frigidity",
"frigidness"
],
"antonyms":[
"impassiveness",
"impassivity",
"insensibility",
"insensibleness",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"featherbrain":{
"a silly flighty person":{
"examples":[
"you would not want to have to rely on that featherbrain in an emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"birdbrain",
"cuckoo",
"ditz",
"featherhead",
"flibbertigibbet",
"nitwit",
"rattlebrain",
"scatterbrain",
"softhead"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fool",
"goose",
"silly",
"simpleton"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fetor":{
"as in noisomeness , malodor":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"acridness",
"fetidness",
"foulness",
"funk",
"gaminess",
"malodor",
"noisomeness",
"rancidity",
"rankness",
"reek",
"stench",
"stink",
"ambrosia",
"lusciousness",
"savor",
"savour",
"savoriness",
"spice",
"tang",
"aromaticity",
"odoriferousness",
"odorousness",
"attar",
"otto",
"bouquet",
"fragrance",
"fragrancy",
"perfume",
"incense",
"musk",
"whiff",
"aroma",
"odor",
"redolence",
"scent",
"smell",
"sniff"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feasted":{
"to entertain with a fancy meal":{
"examples":[
"the returning war heroes were feasted all over the country"
],
"synonyms":[
"banqueted",
"dined",
"junketed",
"regaled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boarded",
"catered",
"fed",
"provisioned",
"feted",
"f\u00eated",
"honored",
"recognized"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give satisfaction to":{
"examples":[
"feast your eyes on all the fresh flowers at the farmers' market"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreed (with)",
"contented",
"delighted",
"gassed",
"gladded",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"pleasured",
"rejoiced",
"satisfied",
"suited",
"warmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"soothed",
"assuaged",
"quenched",
"sated",
"satiated",
"excited",
"tickled",
"titillated",
"amused",
"diverted",
"entertained",
"treated",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"galvanized",
"thrilled",
"calmed",
"comforted",
"catered (to)",
"humored",
"indulged",
"coddled",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"chafed",
"crossed",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"irked",
"irritated",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"perturbed",
"piqued",
"put out",
"ruffled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"angered",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"steamed up",
"provoked",
"roused",
"agitated",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fretted",
"upset",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"offended"
],
"antonyms":[
"displeased"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"federating":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"in the years following World War II, the U.S. and the nations of western Europe made the decision to federate as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization"
],
"synonyms":[
"allying",
"associating",
"banding (together)",
"clubbing",
"coalescing",
"cohering",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"cooperating",
"leaguing",
"uniting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caballing",
"collaborating",
"ganging up",
"hanging together",
"teaming (up)",
"incorporating",
"organizing",
"unionizing",
"affiliating",
"amalgamating",
"combining",
"conglomerating",
"consolidating",
"converging",
"grouping",
"joining",
"merging",
"knotting",
"linking",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"dissolving",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"segregating",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"falling out"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ferret (out)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"the reporter ferreted out massive evidence of corruption at city hall"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig out",
"dig up",
"discover",
"dredge (up)",
"find",
"find out",
"get",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunt (down or up)",
"learn",
"locate",
"nose out",
"root (out)",
"rout (out)",
"rummage",
"run down",
"scare up",
"scout (up)",
"track (down)",
"turn up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espy",
"sight",
"spot",
"look for",
"search (for or out)",
"seek"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose",
"mislay",
"misplace",
"misset"
],
"antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"pass over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"felling":{
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"a champion boxer who was shockingly felled in the first round"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowling (down or over)",
"downing",
"dropping",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"knocking over",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"mowing (down)",
"prostrating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoing",
"knocking out",
"KO'ing",
"overthrowing",
"throwing down",
"toppling",
"banging",
"bashing",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"jabbing",
"pasting",
"poking",
"pounding",
"punching",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring down by cutting":{
"examples":[
"the settlers began the daunting task of felling the mighty trees that blanketed the island"
],
"synonyms":[
"chopping (down)",
"cutting (down)",
"hewing",
"mowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulldozing",
"demolishing",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"razing",
"tearing down"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deprive of life":{
"examples":[
"the quest for a cure for malaria, the disease that felled so many during the digging of the Panama Canal"
],
"synonyms":[
"carrying off",
"claiming",
"croaking",
"destroying",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"killing",
"slaying",
"taking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumping off",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"finishing",
"getting",
"icing",
"knocking off",
"murdering",
"neutralizing",
"offing",
"putting away",
"rubbing out",
"scragging",
"snuffing",
"taking out",
"wasting",
"whacking",
"annihilating",
"blotting out",
"decimating",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing",
"slaughtering",
"smiting",
"assassinating",
"executing",
"martyring",
"terminating",
"euthanizing",
"euthanatizing",
"putting down",
"suiciding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"raising",
"restoring",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"reviving",
"nurturing"
],
"antonyms":[
"animating"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"featureless":{
"lacking in distinctive features or qualities":{
"examples":[
"was surprised to find that the desert was a flat, featureless , rock-strewn wasteland"
],
"synonyms":[
"beige",
"characterless",
"faceless",
"indistinctive",
"neutral",
"noncommittal",
"nondescript",
"vanilla"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boring",
"drab",
"dreary",
"dry",
"dull",
"flat",
"humdrum",
"leaden",
"monotonous",
"pedestrian",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"bold",
"catchy",
"dramatic",
"emphatic",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"showy",
"splashy",
"striking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ferocious":{
"extreme in degree, power, or effect":{
"examples":[
"the ferocious appetite that athletic teenagers have been known to display"
],
"synonyms":[
"acute",
"almighty",
"blistering",
"deep",
"dreadful",
"excruciating",
"explosive",
"exquisite",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"fierce",
"frightful",
"furious",
"ghastly",
"hard",
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"hellacious",
"intense",
"intensive",
"keen",
"profound",
"terrible",
"vehement",
"vicious",
"violent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accentuated",
"aggravated",
"concentrated",
"deepened",
"emphasized",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"stressed",
"exhaustive",
"thorough",
"harsh",
"rigorous",
"severe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feeble",
"weak",
"shallow",
"superficial",
"moderated",
"qualified",
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened",
"toned (down)",
"abated",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"subdued"
],
"antonyms":[
"light",
"moderate",
"soft"
]
},
"marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity":{
"examples":[
"ferocious forest fires threatened to destroy hundreds of homes in the scrubland"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang-bang",
"blood-and-guts",
"convulsive",
"cyclonic",
"explosive",
"fierce",
"furious",
"hammer-and-tongs",
"hot",
"knock-down, drag-out",
"knock-down-and-drag-out",
"paroxysmal",
"rabid",
"rough",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"tumultuous",
"turbulent",
"violent",
"volcanic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbarous",
"brutal",
"savage",
"vicious",
"antagonistic",
"hostile",
"aggressive",
"assertive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"gladiatorial",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"truculent",
"combustible",
"volatile",
"agitated",
"frantic",
"frenzied",
"mad",
"cataclysmal",
"cataclysmic",
"destructive",
"ruinous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"halcyon",
"pacific",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"nonbelligerent",
"unaggressive"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonviolent",
"peaceable",
"peaceful"
]
},
"violently unfriendly or aggressive in disposition":{
"examples":[
"the animal is known as a ferocious predator"
],
"synonyms":[
"fell",
"fierce",
"grim",
"savage",
"vicious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argumentative",
"assaultive",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"brawly",
"chippy",
"combative",
"confrontational",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"feisty",
"gladiatorial",
"militant",
"pugnacious",
"scrappy",
"warlike",
"bare-knuckle",
"bare-knuckled",
"bare-knuckles",
"blood-and-guts",
"in-your-face",
"take-no-prisoners",
"contentious",
"quarrelsome",
"truculent",
"menacing",
"threatening",
"bestial",
"brute",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"barbaric",
"uncivilized",
"wild",
"heartless",
"implacable",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"relentless",
"ruthless",
"unrelenting",
"wanton",
"bloodthirsty",
"bloody",
"homicidal",
"murdering",
"murderous",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine",
"rapacious",
"ravenous",
"voracious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amicable",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"congenial",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hearty",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"compliant",
"submissive",
"tame",
"benign",
"compassionate",
"kind",
"merciful",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"amiable",
"complaisant",
"obliging",
"human",
"humane",
"civilized",
"cultured"
],
"antonyms":[
"gentle",
"mild",
"unaggressive"
]
},
"marked by great and often stressful excitement or activity":{
"examples":[
"after a day of ferocious up-and-down trading, the stock market ended up down 300 points"
],
"synonyms":[
"delirious",
"feverish",
"fierce",
"frantic",
"frenetic",
"frenzied",
"furious",
"mad",
"rabid",
"violent",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concentrated",
"high-pressured",
"intense",
"intensive",
"vehement",
"excessive",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"extreme",
"immoderate",
"inordinate",
"lavish",
"overmuch",
"overweening",
"unconscionable",
"undue",
"crazed",
"crazy",
"demented",
"deranged",
"insane",
"irrational",
"lunatic",
"maniacal",
"maniac"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"subdued",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed",
"untroubled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"casual",
"easygoing",
"low-pressure",
"balanced",
"sane",
"sound"
],
"antonyms":[
"relaxed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fellow traveler":{
"someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support":{
"examples":[
"he was not a member of the political group or even a fellow traveler",
"a cause being promoted by Greenpeace and its fellow travelers in the environmental movement"
],
"synonyms":[
"abettor",
"abetter",
"ally",
"backer",
"bedfellow",
"confederate",
"supporter",
"sympathizer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"empathizer",
"well-wisher",
"accessory",
"accessary",
"accomplice",
"coalitionist",
"collaborationist",
"collaborator",
"adjunct",
"assistant",
"coadjutor",
"helper",
"associate",
"cohort",
"colleague",
"fellow",
"partner",
"buddy",
"chum",
"companion",
"comrade",
"confidant",
"crony",
"familiar",
"friend",
"intimate",
"mate",
"pal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittler",
"detractor",
"adversary",
"enemy",
"foe",
"opponent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feign":{
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"I would never feign illness just to get out of a test"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"affect",
"assume",
"bluff",
"counterfeit",
"dissemble",
"fake",
"pass (for)",
"pretend",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulate",
"impersonate",
"let on",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"forge",
"imitate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"feint",
"malinger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fed":{
"as in G-man , plainclothesman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Federal",
"G-man",
"narc",
"nark",
"plainclothesman",
"shadow",
"tail",
"tracer",
"tracker",
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"investigator",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator",
"shamus",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide food or meals for":{
"examples":[
"a charity dedicated to feeding the hungry"
],
"synonyms":[
"boarded",
"catered",
"provisioned",
"victualed",
"victualled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"served",
"waited",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"sustained",
"banqueted",
"dined",
"feasted",
"regaled",
"messed",
"battened",
"fattened",
"filled",
"force-fed",
"overfed",
"surfeited",
"underfed",
"hand-fed",
"spoon-fed",
"refed",
"reprovisioned"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption":{
"examples":[
"all week long colleagues have been feeding me ideas for a magazine article"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivered",
"furnished",
"gave",
"handed",
"handed over",
"provided",
"supplied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"plied (with)",
"administered",
"allocated",
"apportioned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"distributed",
"doled out",
"meted (out)",
"parceled (out)",
"parcelled (out)",
"portioned",
"prorated",
"assigned",
"ceded",
"deeded",
"made over",
"transferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserved",
"kept up",
"maintained",
"preserved",
"saved"
],
"antonyms":[
"held (back)",
"kept (back)",
"reserved",
"retained",
"withheld"
]
},
"to take a meal":{
"examples":[
"an all-you-can-eat buffet where families can feed heartily and fairly inexpensively"
],
"synonyms":[
"ate",
"dined",
"fared",
"partook",
"refreshed",
"victualed",
"victualled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banqueted",
"feasted",
"repasted",
"chowed (down)",
"dug in",
"glutted",
"gorged",
"gormandized",
"overate",
"overfed",
"pigged out",
"grazed",
"nibbled",
"noshed",
"picked",
"snacked",
"boarded",
"dined out",
"messed",
"breakfasted",
"lunched",
"supped",
"picnicked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieted",
"fasted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fears":{
"to experience concern or anxiety":{
"examples":[
"her friends feared that she was dating a guy who was all wrong for her"
],
"synonyms":[
"bothers",
"frets",
"fusses",
"stews",
"stresses",
"sweats",
"troubles",
"worries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agonizes",
"longs",
"pines",
"yearns",
"chafes",
"despairs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"abides",
"bears",
"endures",
"sticks out",
"stomachs",
"sustains",
"takes",
"tolerates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feigner":{
"as in sham , pretender":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bluffer",
"counterfeiter",
"dissembler",
"pretender",
"sham",
"charlatan",
"deceiver",
"double-dealer",
"fake",
"faker",
"fraud",
"hypocrite",
"impostor",
"imposter",
"phony",
"phoney",
"fabricator",
"fabulist",
"fibber",
"liar",
"prevaricator",
"storyteller"
],
"near antonyms":[
"square shooter",
"straight shooter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fests":{
"a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something":{
"examples":[
"a country music fest"
],
"synonyms":[
"carnivals",
"celebrations",
"festivals",
"festivities",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"fiestas",
"galas",
"jubilees"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jamborees",
"jollifications",
"jollities",
"merriments",
"merrymakings",
"rejoicings",
"revelries",
"revels",
"exhibitions",
"exhibits",
"expositions",
"fairs",
"shows",
"exercises",
"honors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feasible":{
"capable of being done or carried out":{
"examples":[
"would it be feasible to build a cabin in so short a time?"
],
"synonyms":[
"achievable",
"attainable",
"doable",
"possible",
"practicable",
"realizable",
"viable",
"workable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"practical",
"reasonable",
"sensible",
"contingent",
"likely",
"probable",
"acceptable",
"believable",
"conceivable",
"creditable",
"plausible",
"thinkable",
"actionable",
"available",
"usable",
"useable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impractical",
"unrealistic",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"far-fetched",
"improbable",
"unlikely",
"implausible",
"inconceivable",
"incredible",
"unbelievable",
"futile",
"useless",
"vain",
"absurd",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"outlandish",
"preposterous",
"ridiculous",
"unthinkable"
],
"antonyms":[
"hopeless",
"impossible",
"impracticable",
"infeasible",
"nonviable",
"unattainable",
"undoable",
"unfeasible",
"unrealizable",
"unviable",
"unworkable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"featurettes":{
"as in documentaries , features":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"animated cartoons",
"cartoons",
"docudramas",
"documentaries",
"features",
"shorts",
"short subjects",
"films",
"flickers",
"flicks",
"motion pictures",
"movies",
"moving pictures",
"pictures",
"silents",
"talkies",
"B movies",
"B pictures",
"cofeatures",
"co-features"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"felt up":{
"as in pawed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pawed",
"billed",
"canoodled",
"cuddled",
"necked",
"nestled",
"nosed",
"nuzzled",
"snuggled",
"spooned",
"cradled",
"embraced",
"enfolded",
"hugged",
"caressed",
"fondled",
"gentled",
"loved",
"patted",
"petted",
"stroked",
"bounced",
"dandled",
"kneaded",
"massaged",
"babied",
"coddled",
"indulged",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feathery":{
"having little weight":{
"examples":[
"the apple pie had a wonderfully feathery crust"
],
"synonyms":[
"featherlight",
"light",
"lightweight",
"underweight",
"weightless"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"little",
"minute",
"puny",
"small",
"smallish",
"tiny",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"wee",
"flimsy",
"fragile",
"insubstantial",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"considerable",
"extensive",
"goodly",
"great",
"handsome",
"huge",
"hulking",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"massive",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"super",
"voluminous",
"whacking",
"bulky",
"cumbersome",
"unwieldy"
],
"antonyms":[
"heavy",
"hefty",
"leaden",
"overweight",
"ponderous",
"weighty"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"feminists":{
"as in egalitarians":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"egalitarians",
"optimists",
"positivists",
"idealists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anti-feminists",
"bigots",
"chauvinists",
"misandrists",
"misogynists",
"sexists",
"cynics",
"misanthropes",
"naysayers",
"pessimists",
"doubters",
"negativists",
"skeptics"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"festivity":{
"a mood characterized by high spirits and amusement and often accompanied by laughter":{
"examples":[
"rather than mourn our friend's death we celebrated his life, and his memorial service was more notable for its festivity than its funereal gloom"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"jocundity",
"joviality",
"merriment",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frivolity",
"levity",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"brightness",
"buoyancy",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"humor",
"sunniness",
"gamesomeness",
"insouciance",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"sportiveness",
"buffoonery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"funning",
"jest",
"jesting",
"jocoseness",
"jocosity",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"animation",
"giddiness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"perkiness",
"vivacity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"rejoicing",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping"
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"blues",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"forlornness",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness",
"bile",
"gloom",
"melancholy",
"sourness",
"spleen",
"earnestness",
"graveness",
"gravity",
"grimness",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"sobersidedness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"discontent",
"disgruntlement",
"moodiness",
"dolefulness",
"dolorousness",
"joylessness",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blackness",
"darkness",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"desolateness",
"desolation",
"heartbreak",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mourning",
"wretchedness"
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],
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"carnival",
"celebration",
"fest",
"festival",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"fiesta",
"gala",
"jubilee"
],
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"jamboree",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"rejoicing",
"revel",
"revelry",
"exhibit",
"exhibition",
"exposition",
"fair",
"show",
"exercises",
"honors"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"joyful or festive activity":{
"examples":[
"in keeping with their habit of doing everything in a big way, the couple's wedding will entail a whole weekend of festivity"
],
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"gaiety",
"gayety",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"merriment",
"merrymaking",
"rejoicing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"whoopee"
],
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"carousal",
"carouse",
"delight",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"fun",
"mischief",
"pleasure",
"recreation",
"riot",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"hilarity",
"joviality",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"carnival",
"celebration",
"festival",
"party",
"revel",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"rollicking",
"romping",
"enjoyment",
"happiness",
"joy",
"binge",
"fling",
"frolic",
"gambol",
"lark",
"rollick",
"romp",
"spree",
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clownishness",
"flippancy",
"frivolity",
"funning",
"jesting",
"jocularity",
"joking",
"joshing",
"levity",
"lightheartedness",
"playfulness",
"zaniness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackness",
"darkness",
"dolefulness",
"dolor",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"glumness",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"heartsickness",
"miserableness",
"misery",
"mournfulness",
"mourning",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"despondence",
"despondency",
"disconsolateness",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"dumps",
"forlornness",
"joylessness",
"melancholy",
"sorrow",
"unhappiness"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
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"preyed (on or upon)"
],
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"chased",
"hunted",
"pursued",
"stalked",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"felled",
"killed",
"slew"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
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"festooned":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"for Valentine's Day the dance hall was festooned with a riot of red hearts and bow-wielding cupids"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorned",
"arrayed",
"beautified",
"bedecked",
"bedizened",
"blazoned",
"caparisoned",
"decked",
"decorated",
"did",
"did up",
"dolled up",
"draped",
"dressed",
"embellished",
"emblazed",
"embossed",
"enriched",
"fancied up",
"fancified",
"garnished",
"glitzed (up)",
"graced",
"gussied up",
"ornamented",
"prettied (up)",
"trimmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorized",
"dressed up",
"trapped",
"tricked (out)",
"brightened",
"freshened",
"smartened",
"spruced (up)",
"bossed",
"chased",
"braided",
"embroidered",
"feathered",
"figured",
"filigreed",
"filleted",
"flounced",
"frilled",
"fringed",
"furbelowed",
"garlanded",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"ribboned",
"swagged",
"wreathed",
"appliqu\u00e9d",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"painted",
"diamonded",
"gemmed",
"impearled",
"jeweled",
"jewelled",
"pearled",
"redecorated",
"redid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"bared",
"denuded",
"dismantled",
"displayed",
"divested",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"uncovered",
"uglified"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"marred",
"scarred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feedlots":{
"as in yards , stockyards":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"stockyards",
"yards",
"ranches",
"stations",
"grasslands",
"pampas",
"prairies",
"savannas",
"savannahs",
"steppes",
"leas",
"leys",
"pasturages",
"pastures",
"ranges"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fell apart":{
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"The old house was falling apart before the restoration."
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated",
"festered",
"fouled",
"molded",
"moldered",
"perished",
"putrefied",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"soured",
"turned",
"turned off",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"addled",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"mortified",
"rusted",
"crumbled",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"dilapidated",
"sank",
"sunk",
"withered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"developed",
"grew",
"matured",
"ripened",
"refreshed",
"renewed",
"restored",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"assembled",
"composed",
"integrated",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to yield to mental or emotional stress":{
"examples":[
"He fell apart after his wife left."
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"broke up",
"cracked",
"flipped (out)",
"freaked (out)",
"melted down",
"wigged (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"feaster":{
"as in trencherman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"trencherman",
"cormorant",
"glutton",
"gorger",
"gormandizer",
"gourmand",
"hog",
"overeater",
"pig",
"stuffer",
"swiller",
"muncher",
"guzzler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dieter",
"nibbler",
"picker"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feeling (for)":{
"to have sympathy for":{
"examples":[
"a reminder that during the holidays we should all feel for those families who have members serving in the military abroad"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching (for)",
"bleeding (for)",
"commiserating (with)",
"compassionating",
"condoling (with)",
"pitying",
"sympathizing (with)",
"yearning (over)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"grieving (for)",
"sorrowing (for)",
"loving",
"empathizing (with)",
"identifying (with)",
"tolerating",
"understanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"disliking",
"hating",
"scorning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fell short (of)":{
"as in missed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"missed",
"failed (at)",
"lost"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achieved",
"attained",
"bagged",
"chalked up",
"clocked (up)",
"gained",
"hit",
"logged",
"made",
"notched (up)",
"racked up",
"rang up",
"scored",
"won",
"acquired",
"captured",
"carried",
"drew",
"garnered",
"got",
"landed",
"obtained",
"procured",
"realized",
"secured",
"amounted (to)",
"approached",
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"measured up (to)",
"met",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"tied",
"touched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"featherbrained":{
"lacking in seriousness or maturity":{
"examples":[
"some featherbrained youngsters giggled through the graduation ceremonies"
],
"synonyms":[
"birdbrained",
"ditzy",
"ditsy",
"dizzy",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"frothy",
"futile",
"giddy",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"light-headed",
"light-minded",
"puerile",
"scatterbrained",
"silly",
"yeasty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fatuous",
"foolish",
"inane",
"nonsensical",
"thoughtless",
"witless",
"crazy",
"daffy",
"daft",
"fruity",
"exuberant",
"flippant",
"fluttery",
"giggly",
"happy",
"light",
"lighthearted",
"playful",
"sappy",
"shallow",
"superficial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grave",
"melancholy",
"somber",
"sombre",
"thoughtful",
"dignified",
"heavy",
"no-nonsense",
"sedate",
"severe",
"solemn",
"staid"
],
"antonyms":[
"earnest",
"serious",
"serious-minded",
"sober",
"unfrivolous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fellowships":{
"a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest":{
"examples":[
"a fellowship of physicians dedicated to administering medical aid without regard to politics"
],
"synonyms":[
"associations",
"boards",
"brotherhoods",
"chambers",
"clubs",
"colleges",
"congresses",
"consortia",
"consortiums",
"councils",
"fraternities",
"guilds",
"gilds",
"institutes",
"institutions",
"leagues",
"orders",
"organizations",
"societies",
"sodalities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collectives",
"communes",
"communities",
"cooperatives",
"alliances",
"blocs",
"camps",
"coalitions",
"partnerships",
"bodies",
"cadres",
"groups",
"circles",
"clans",
"cliques",
"coteries",
"juntas",
"juntos",
"klatches",
"klatsches",
"lots",
"sets",
"crews",
"outfits",
"parties",
"squads",
"teams",
"branches",
"chapters",
"locals",
"faithfuls",
"folds",
"memberships",
"sisterhoods",
"sororities",
"cabals",
"camarillas",
"camorras",
"confederacies",
"conspiracies",
"bands",
"gangs",
"rings",
"cartels",
"combines",
"syndicates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the body of people in a profession or field of activity":{
"examples":[
"members of a law firm who violated just about every ethical principle that the legal fellowship holds dear"
],
"synonyms":[
"brotherhoods",
"communities",
"corps",
"fraternities",
"sodalities",
"vocations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"callings",
"professions",
"associations",
"clubs",
"federations",
"guilds",
"gilds",
"organizations",
"societies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in takes , receives":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admits",
"enters",
"receives",
"takes",
"entertains",
"welcomes",
"confirms",
"ratifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bans",
"bars",
"declines",
"disallows",
"disapproves",
"dismisses",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"blackballs",
"blacklists",
"ostracizes",
"banishes",
"deports",
"exiles",
"expels",
"ousts",
"throws out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fellness":{
"as in ferocity , fierceness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ferociousness",
"ferocity",
"fierceness",
"grimness",
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"brutality",
"cruelness",
"cruelty",
"fiendishness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"inhumanness",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"wantonness",
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"unfeelingness",
"bloodlust",
"bloodthirstiness",
"murderousness",
"sanguineness",
"sanguinity",
"cattiness",
"despitefulness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spitefulness",
"hardhandedness",
"harshness",
"heavy-handedness",
"oppressiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness",
"warmness",
"warmth",
"charitableness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"pity",
"benignity",
"compassion",
"good-heartedness",
"humaneness",
"humanity",
"kindheartedness",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tenderheartedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"felicitating":{
"to express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune":{
"examples":[
"the other pianists rushed to felicitate the winner of the piano competition"
],
"synonyms":[
"complimenting",
"congratulating",
"hugging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"applauding",
"cheering",
"commending",
"hailing",
"saluting",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"lauding",
"praising"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"putting down",
"writing off",
"jeering",
"mocking",
"ridiculing",
"taunting",
"teasing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feared":{
"to experience concern or anxiety":{
"examples":[
"her friends feared that she was dating a guy who was all wrong for her"
],
"synonyms":[
"bothered",
"fretted",
"fussed",
"stewed",
"stressed",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"troubled",
"worried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agonized",
"longed",
"pined",
"yearned",
"chafed",
"despaired"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"abided",
"abode",
"bore",
"endured",
"stomached",
"stuck out",
"sustained",
"tolerated",
"took"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fevers":{
"an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning":{
"examples":[
"before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that"
],
"synonyms":[
"affections",
"ailments",
"ails",
"bugs",
"complaints",
"complications",
"conditions",
"diseases",
"disorders",
"distemperatures",
"distempers",
"illnesses",
"ills",
"infirmities",
"maladies",
"sicknesses",
"troubles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contagions",
"contagious diseases",
"contagia",
"infections",
"attacks",
"bouts",
"fits",
"spells",
"debilities",
"decrepitudes",
"weaknesses",
"malaises",
"matters",
"pips",
"epidemics",
"pestilences",
"pests",
"plagues"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fetishes":{
"something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned":{
"examples":[
"dieting seems to be a fetish with some people"
],
"synonyms":[
"fixations",
"id\u00e9es fixes",
"manias",
"obsessions",
"preoccupations",
"prepossessions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"monomanias",
"complexes",
"hang-ups",
"problems",
"trips",
"appetites",
"caco\u00ebtheses",
"compulsions",
"cravings",
"desires",
"drives",
"enthusiasms",
"fascinations",
"hungers",
"infatuations",
"itches",
"longings",
"lusts",
"passions",
"thirsts",
"urges",
"yearnings",
"yens",
"idiosyncrasies",
"quirks",
"bents",
"dispositions",
"inclinations",
"leanings",
"partialities",
"penchants",
"predilections",
"predispositions",
"proclivities",
"propensities",
"tendencies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apathies",
"disregards",
"indifferences",
"insouciances",
"nonchalances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil":{
"examples":[
"an archaeologist discovering an old animal tooth that may have been worn as a fetish"
],
"synonyms":[
"amulets",
"charms",
"mascots",
"mojoes",
"mojos",
"periapts",
"phylacteries",
"talismans"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gris-gris",
"grigri",
"jujus",
"philters",
"toadstones",
"emblems",
"symbols",
"tokens",
"totems"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curses",
"hexes",
"spells"
],
"antonyms":[
"hoodoos",
"jinxes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feathering":{
"as in pulling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pulling",
"poling",
"punting",
"canoeing",
"kayaking",
"oaring",
"paddling",
"rowing",
"sculling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in hanging , lacing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"braiding",
"embroidering",
"figuring",
"filigreeing",
"filleting",
"flouncing",
"frilling",
"fringing",
"furbelowing",
"garlanding",
"hanging",
"lacing",
"ribboning",
"swagging",
"wreathing",
"bossing",
"chasing",
"appliqu\u00e9ing",
"gilding",
"painting",
"brightening",
"freshening",
"smartening",
"sprucing (up)",
"diamonding",
"gemming",
"impearling",
"jeweling",
"jewelling",
"pearling",
"accessorizing",
"dressing up",
"trapping",
"tricking (out)",
"redecorating",
"redoing",
"adorning",
"arraying",
"beautifying",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"blazoning",
"caparisoning",
"decking",
"decorating",
"doing",
"doing up",
"dolling up",
"draping",
"dressing",
"embellishing",
"emblazing",
"embossing",
"enriching",
"fancifying",
"fancying up",
"festooning",
"garnishing",
"glitzing (up)",
"gracing",
"gussying up",
"ornamenting",
"prettying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemishing",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"marring",
"scarring",
"spoiling",
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"baring",
"denuding",
"dismantling",
"displaying",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"stripping",
"uncovering",
"uglifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fealties":{
"adherence to something to which one is bound by a pledge or duty":{
"examples":[
"as much as I wanted to back my friend up, my fealty to the truth was greater, and I could not lie for him"
],
"synonyms":[
"adhesion",
"allegiance",
"attachment",
"commitment",
"constancy",
"dedication",
"devotedness",
"devotion",
"faith",
"faithfulness",
"fastness",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"piety",
"steadfastness",
"troth"
],
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"affection",
"fondness",
"determination",
"firmness",
"resolution",
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustability",
"trustiness",
"trustworthiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"estrangement",
"separation"
],
"antonyms":[
"disloyalty",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"inconstancy",
"infidelity",
"perfidiousness",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"unfaithfulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fetishistic":{
"as in perversive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"perversive",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"gross",
"indecent",
"nasty",
"pornographic",
"ribald",
"smutty",
"unprintable",
"vulgar",
"bawdy",
"lascivious",
"lewd",
"lustful",
"obscene",
"prurient",
"racy",
"spicy",
"suggestive",
"titillating",
"carnal",
"fleshly",
"sensual",
"sensuous",
"autoerotic",
"amatory",
"amorous",
"aphrodisiac",
"aphrodisiacal",
"erogenous",
"erotic",
"erotical",
"erotogenic",
"sexy",
"steamy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonerotic",
"unerotic",
"unsexy",
"clean",
"decent",
"decorous",
"polite",
"proper",
"seemly",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"fedoras":{
"as in berets , helmets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball caps",
"berets",
"billycocks",
"birettas",
"boaters",
"bonnets",
"bowlers",
"calottes",
"capuches",
"casques",
"castors",
"cloches",
"cocked hats",
"cowboy hats",
"cowls",
"derbies",
"fezzes",
"fezes",
"garrison caps",
"hard hats",
"helmets",
"helms",
"high hats",
"homburgs",
"hoods",
"kepis",
"k\u00e9pis",
"kufis",
"leghorns",
"miters",
"mitres",
"nightcaps",
"opera hats",
"overseas caps",
"panamas",
"picture hats",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"shakos",
"shakoes",
"silk hats",
"skimmers",
"skullcaps",
"sombreros",
"sou'westers",
"Stetsons",
"stocking caps",
"stovepipes",
"sunbonnets",
"tam-o'-shanters",
"tams",
"ten-gallon hats",
"top hats",
"toppers",
"toques",
"tricornes",
"tricorns",
"turbans",
"zucchettos",
"caps",
"chapeaus",
"chapeaux",
"hats",
"headdresses",
"headgears",
"headpieces",
"lids",
"warbonnets"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feed":{
"to provide food or meals for":{
"examples":[
"a charity dedicated to feeding the hungry"
],
"synonyms":[
"board",
"cater",
"provision",
"victual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serve",
"wait",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"sustain",
"banquet",
"dine",
"feast",
"regale",
"mess",
"batten",
"fatten",
"fill",
"force-feed",
"overfeed",
"surfeit",
"underfeed",
"hand-feed",
"spoon-feed",
"refeed",
"reprovision"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption":{
"examples":[
"all week long colleagues have been feeding me ideas for a magazine article"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliver",
"furnish",
"give",
"hand",
"hand over",
"provide",
"supply"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ply (with)",
"administer",
"allocate",
"apportion",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"distribute",
"dole out",
"mete (out)",
"parcel (out)",
"portion",
"prorate",
"assign",
"cede",
"deed",
"make over",
"transfer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserve",
"keep up",
"maintain",
"preserve",
"save"
],
"antonyms":[
"hold (back)",
"keep (back)",
"reserve",
"retain",
"withhold"
]
},
"to take a meal":{
"examples":[
"an all-you-can-eat buffet where families can feed heartily and fairly inexpensively"
],
"synonyms":[
"dine",
"eat",
"fare",
"partake",
"refresh",
"victual"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banquet",
"feast",
"repast",
"chow (down)",
"dig in",
"glut",
"gorge",
"gormandize",
"overeat",
"overfeed",
"pig out",
"graze",
"nibble",
"nosh",
"pick",
"snack",
"board",
"mess",
"dine out",
"breakfast",
"lunch",
"sup",
"picnic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diet",
"fast"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a large fancy meal often accompanied by ceremony or entertainment":{
"examples":[
"the company barbecue was an elaborate feed that was enlivened by country music and dancing"
],
"synonyms":[
"banquet",
"dinner",
"feast",
"regale",
"spread"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chow",
"mess",
"repast",
"table",
"blowout",
"carnival",
"festival",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"gala",
"party",
"shindig",
"festivity",
"barbecue",
"barbeque",
"clambake",
"cookout",
"fry",
"luau",
"roast",
"buffet",
"luncheon",
"smorgasbord"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"food eaten or prepared for eating at one time":{
"examples":[
"after soccer practice we were all ready for a hot shower and a satisfying feed"
],
"synonyms":[
"chow",
"meal",
"menu",
"mess",
"refection",
"repast",
"table"
],
"near synonyms":[
"board",
"breakfast",
"buffet",
"collation",
"dinner",
"lunch",
"luncheon",
"refreshments",
"smorgasbord",
"snack",
"supper",
"tea",
"bite",
"gulp",
"morsel",
"serving",
"taste",
"banquet",
"feast",
"regale",
"spread",
"bake",
"barbecue",
"barbeque",
"clambake",
"cookout",
"fry",
"fry-up",
"luau",
"picnic",
"potluck",
"roast"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"festoons":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"for Valentine's Day the dance hall was festooned with a riot of red hearts and bow-wielding cupids"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorns",
"arrays",
"beautifies",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"blazons",
"caparisons",
"decks",
"decorates",
"does",
"does up",
"dolls up",
"drapes",
"dresses",
"embellishes",
"emblazes",
"embosses",
"enriches",
"fancies up",
"fancifies",
"garnishes",
"glitzes (up)",
"graces",
"gussies up",
"ornaments",
"pretties (up)",
"trims"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizes",
"dresses up",
"traps",
"tricks (out)",
"brightens",
"freshens",
"smartens",
"spruces (up)",
"bosses",
"chases",
"braids",
"embroiders",
"feathers",
"figures",
"filigrees",
"fillets",
"flounces",
"frills",
"fringes",
"furbelows",
"garlands",
"hangs",
"laces",
"ribbons",
"swags",
"wreathes",
"appliqu\u00e9s",
"gilds",
"paints",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"impearls",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"redecorates",
"redoes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifies",
"streamlines",
"bares",
"denudes",
"dismantles",
"displays",
"divests",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"strips",
"uncovers",
"uglifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"mars",
"scars",
"spoils"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"federate":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"in the years following World War II, the U.S. and the nations of western Europe made the decision to federate as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization"
],
"synonyms":[
"ally",
"associate",
"band (together)",
"club",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"confederate",
"conjoin",
"cooperate",
"league",
"unite"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cabal",
"collaborate",
"gang up",
"hang together",
"team (up)",
"incorporate",
"organize",
"unionize",
"affiliate",
"amalgamate",
"combine",
"conglomerate",
"consolidate",
"converge",
"group",
"join",
"merge",
"knot",
"link",
"tie",
"wed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"disengage",
"dissolve",
"disunite",
"divorce",
"part",
"segregate",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"alienate",
"estrange",
"fall out"
],
"antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feasibleness":{
"as in possibility , viability":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"feasibility",
"possibility",
"potentiality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"viability",
"credibility",
"plausibility",
"plausibleness",
"liability",
"likelihood",
"probability"
],
"near antonyms":[
"improbability",
"unlikelihood",
"unlikeliness",
"doubtfulness",
"dubiousness",
"impracticability",
"impracticality",
"implausibility",
"incredibility",
"incredibleness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"femininity":{
"the set of qualities traditionally considered appropriate for or characteristic of women":{
"examples":[
"national costumes that accent masculinity and femininity"
],
"synonyms":[
"feminity",
"muliebrity",
"womanhood",
"womanishness",
"womanliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"femaleness",
"girlishness",
"effeminacy",
"effeteness",
"girlhood",
"maidenhood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"androgyny",
"boyishness",
"mannishness",
"tomboyishness"
],
"antonyms":[
"manhood",
"manliness",
"masculinity",
"virility"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"felicity":{
"a feeling or state of well-being and contentment":{
"examples":[
"told his friends that marriage had brought him a felicity that he had never known before"
],
"synonyms":[
"beatitude",
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"gladness",
"happiness",
"joy",
"warm fuzzies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"elatedness",
"elation",
"exhilaration",
"exultation",
"high",
"intoxication",
"ecstasy",
"euphoria",
"glory",
"heaven",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"rapture",
"rapturousness",
"ravishment",
"seventh heaven",
"transport",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"pleasure",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"comfort",
"exuberance",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gladsomeness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"jocundity",
"jollity",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilance",
"jubilation",
"lightheartedness",
"merriness",
"mirth",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction",
"triumph"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"anguish",
"desolation",
"joylessness",
"sorrow",
"sufferance",
"woe",
"woefulness",
"blues",
"cheerlessness",
"dejection",
"depression",
"desolateness",
"despondency",
"disheartenment",
"dispiritedness",
"doldrums",
"downheartedness",
"gloom",
"gloominess",
"melancholy",
"mournfulness",
"plaintiveness",
"Gehenna",
"hell",
"purgatory"
],
"antonyms":[
"calamity",
"ill-being",
"misery",
"sadness",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
]
},
"something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing":{
"examples":[
"the elderly couple counted their grandchildren as their most cherished felicities"
],
"synonyms":[
"benediction",
"benefit",
"blessing",
"boon",
"godsend",
"good",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grace",
"mercy",
"favor",
"kindness",
"mitzvah",
"advantage",
"aid",
"assistance",
"gift",
"help",
"relief",
"support",
"anodyne",
"comfort",
"consolation",
"solace",
"bonus",
"extra",
"lagniappe",
"delight",
"joy",
"pleasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hex",
"hoodoo",
"jinx",
"bother",
"irritant",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"disadvantage",
"cross",
"misery",
"trial",
"tribulation"
],
"antonyms":[
"affliction",
"bane",
"curse",
"evil",
"plague",
"scourge"
]
},
"the quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting":{
"examples":[
"the telling felicity of the epigraphs that precede each chapter of the novel"
],
"synonyms":[
"appositeness",
"appropriateness",
"aptness",
"felicitousness",
"fitness",
"fittingness",
"happiness",
"properness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agreeableness",
"compatibility",
"congruity",
"harmoniousness",
"applicability",
"bearing",
"connection",
"justifiability",
"materiality",
"pertinence",
"relevance",
"relevancy",
"validity",
"acceptability",
"adequacy",
"adequateness",
"convenience",
"expedience",
"expediency",
"satisfactoriness",
"serviceableness",
"usefulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"incompatibility",
"incongruence",
"incongruity",
"incongruousness",
"inexpedience",
"inexpediency",
"inharmoniousness",
"unbecomingness",
"immateriality",
"inapplicability",
"irrelevance",
"irrelevancy",
"meaninglessness",
"pointlessness"
],
"antonyms":[
"improperness",
"impropriety",
"inappositeness",
"inappropriateness",
"inaptness",
"infelicity",
"unfitness",
"unseemliness",
"unsuitability",
"wrongness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fesses (up)":{
"to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly":{
"examples":[
"he fessed up to breaking the antique vase only after his guilt was obvious"
],
"synonyms":[
"acknowledges",
"admits",
"agrees",
"allows",
"concedes",
"confesses",
"grants",
"owns (up to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disburdens",
"unburdens",
"unloads",
"affirms",
"avows",
"confirms",
"professes",
"accepts",
"recognizes",
"yields",
"announces",
"breaks",
"broadcasts",
"communicates",
"declares",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"imparts",
"proclaims",
"publishes",
"reveals",
"spills",
"tells",
"unveils",
"betrays",
"blabs",
"exposes",
"gives away",
"informs",
"leaks",
"rats",
"squeals",
"talks",
"tattles",
"tips (off)",
"warns",
"wises (up)",
"breathes",
"says",
"whispers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disallows",
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"contradicts",
"disputes",
"gainsays",
"negates",
"negatives",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"conceals",
"covers (up)",
"hides",
"obscures",
"veils",
"kids (oneself)"
],
"antonyms":[
"denies"
]
},
"to make an acknowledgment of something unpleasant as true or valid":{
"examples":[
"at first he denied everything, but eventually he realized that he had no choice but to fess up"
],
"synonyms":[
"admits",
"confesses",
"cops (to)",
"owns (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabs",
"talks",
"tattles",
"babbles",
"spills"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clams up",
"hushes",
"quiets (down)",
"shuts up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fella":{
"an adult male human being":{
"examples":[
"these fellas are the hardest working bunch of players a manager could ever hope to have"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastard",
"bloke",
"buck",
"cat",
"chap",
"chappie",
"dude",
"fellow",
"galoot",
"gent",
"gentleman",
"guy",
"hombre",
"jack",
"joe",
"joker",
"lad",
"male",
"man"
],
"near synonyms":[
"master",
"mister",
"sir",
"buddy",
"buster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fell on one's face":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"Remembering how she fell on her face giving the speech the first time spurred her to practice it till she had it down."
],
"synonyms":[
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"cratered",
"failed",
"flamed out",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"tanked",
"washed out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"waned",
"crashed",
"crumbled",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"went under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooked",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"prevailed",
"triumphed",
"won"
],
"antonyms":[
"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"went",
"went over",
"worked out"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"felicitate":{
"to express to (someone) admiration for his or her success or good fortune":{
"examples":[
"the other pianists rushed to felicitate the winner of the piano competition"
],
"synonyms":[
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"hug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"applaud",
"cheer",
"commend",
"hail",
"salute",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"laud",
"praise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"cry down",
"decry",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"diminish",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"put down",
"write off",
"jeer",
"mock",
"ridicule",
"taunt",
"tease"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"federal":{
"of or relating to a federation or to its central government":{
"examples":[
"A federal system of government distributes power between a country's central and regional governments.",
"The President, Congress, and the Supreme Court are all part of the federal government of the United States."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"national",
"nationwide",
"civic",
"government",
"governmental",
"domestic",
"internal",
"intestine",
"democratic",
"republican",
"civil",
"public"
],
"near antonyms":[
"communal",
"local",
"municipal",
"regional"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fed , G-man":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fed",
"G-man",
"narc",
"nark",
"plainclothesman",
"shadow",
"tail",
"tracer",
"tracker",
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"investigator",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator",
"shamus",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in militiaman , guardsman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Confederate",
"Continental",
"GI",
"guardsman",
"militiaman",
"minuteman",
"lancer",
"pikeman",
"spearman",
"counterguerrilla",
"counterguerilla",
"guerrilla",
"guerilla",
"irregular",
"paramilitary",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"archer",
"crossbowman",
"combatant",
"noncombatant",
"artilleryman",
"cannoneer",
"gunner",
"mortarman",
"musketeer",
"rifleman",
"lifer",
"veteran",
"warhorse",
"jarhead",
"marine",
"ranger",
"conscript",
"draftee",
"enrollee",
"recruit",
"commando",
"raider"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fellowshipped":{
"as in took , received":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admitted",
"entered",
"received",
"took",
"entertained",
"welcomed",
"confirmed",
"ratified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"declined",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"dismissed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"blackballed",
"blacklisted",
"ostracized",
"banished",
"deported",
"exiled",
"expelled",
"ousted",
"threw out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fell short":{
"to be unsuccessful":{
"examples":[
"The movie fell short of its viewers' expectations."
],
"synonyms":[
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"cratered",
"failed",
"flamed out",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"tanked",
"washed out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"waned",
"crashed",
"crumbled",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"went under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cooked",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"prevailed",
"triumphed",
"won"
],
"antonyms":[
"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"succeeded",
"went",
"went over",
"worked out"
]
},
"to go wrong":{
"examples":[
"The biography falls short by neglecting to explore the subject's faults as well as his virtues."
],
"synonyms":[
"miscarried",
"misfired"
],
"near synonyms":[
"missed",
"broke down",
"busted",
"bust",
"conked (out)",
"crashed",
"died",
"failed",
"foundered",
"stalled",
"bombed",
"fizzled",
"flamed out",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"washed out",
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"tanked",
"waned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prevailed",
"succeeded",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fertilizer":{
"as in dressing , plant food":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dressing",
"plant food",
"compost",
"manure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fungicide",
"germicide",
"herbicide",
"insecticide",
"microbicide",
"pesticide",
"toxicant",
"bane",
"poison",
"toxic",
"toxin",
"venom",
"cancer",
"contagion",
"disease",
"virus"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"federates":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"in the years following World War II, the U.S. and the nations of western Europe made the decision to federate as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization"
],
"synonyms":[
"allies",
"associates",
"bands (together)",
"clubs",
"coalesces",
"coheres",
"confederates",
"conjoins",
"cooperates",
"leagues",
"unites"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cabals",
"collaborates",
"gangs up",
"hangs together",
"teams (up)",
"incorporates",
"organizes",
"unionizes",
"affiliates",
"amalgamates",
"combines",
"conglomerates",
"consolidates",
"converges",
"groups",
"joins",
"merges",
"knots",
"links",
"ties",
"weds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaches",
"disengages",
"dissolves",
"disunites",
"divorces",
"parts",
"segregates",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits",
"sunders",
"alienates",
"estranges",
"falls out"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disbands"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feminity":{
"the set of qualities traditionally considered appropriate for or characteristic of women":{
"examples":[
"a gentle feminity that calmed the patients"
],
"synonyms":[
"femininity",
"muliebrity",
"womanhood",
"womanishness",
"womanliness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"femaleness",
"girlishness",
"effeminacy",
"effeteness",
"girlhood",
"maidenhood"
],
"near antonyms":[
"androgyny",
"boyishness",
"mannishness",
"tomboyishness"
],
"antonyms":[
"manhood",
"manliness",
"masculinity",
"virility"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feeding (on, upon, or off)":{
"to seize and eat (something) as prey":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"preying (on or upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chasing",
"hunting",
"pursuing",
"stalking",
"destroying",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"felling",
"killing",
"slaying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"feigned":{
"lacking in natural or spontaneous quality":{
"examples":[
"the feigned applause that polite people give after a bad concert"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"artificial",
"assumed",
"bogus",
"contrived",
"factitious",
"fake",
"false",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"plastic",
"pretended",
"pseudo",
"put-on",
"sham",
"simulated",
"spurious",
"strained",
"unnatural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"automatic",
"canned",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"hokey",
"labored",
"manufactured",
"pat",
"unauthentic",
"unreal",
"unrealistic",
"double-dealing",
"empty",
"facile",
"hollow",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"two-faced",
"unctuous",
"exaggerated",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"overacted",
"overdone",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"cute",
"cutesy",
"genteel",
"goody-goody",
"mincing",
"overrefined",
"simpering",
"conventional",
"formal",
"impersonal",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stylized",
"wooden",
"artful",
"calculated",
"conscious",
"cultivated",
"deliberate",
"premeditated",
"studied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real",
"realistic",
"right",
"true",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"sincere",
"unpretending",
"easy",
"effortless",
"smooth",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"unconscious",
"unprompted",
"unrehearsed",
"unstudied"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"genuine",
"natural",
"spontaneous",
"unaffected",
"uncontrived",
"unfeigned",
"unforced"
]
},
"not being or expressing what one appears to be or express":{
"examples":[
"the feigned looks of innocence I got when I asked who had broken the lamp"
],
"synonyms":[
"artificial",
"backhanded",
"counterfeit",
"double",
"double-dealing",
"double-faced",
"fake",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"Janus-faced",
"jive",
"left-handed",
"lip",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"Pecksniffian",
"phony",
"phoney",
"phony-baloney",
"phoney-baloney",
"pretended",
"two-faced",
"unctuous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"assumed",
"claptrap",
"contrived",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"put-on",
"simulated",
"strained",
"unnatural",
"empty",
"hollow",
"meaningless",
"deceitful",
"devious",
"dishonest",
"false",
"untruthful",
"facile",
"glib",
"superficial",
"bogus",
"sham",
"campy",
"facetious",
"jocular",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"canting",
"pharisaical",
"pious",
"sanctimonious",
"self-righteous",
"simon-pure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"direct",
"forthright",
"frank",
"heart-to-heart",
"open",
"plain",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"candid",
"genuine",
"heartfelt",
"honest",
"sincere",
"undesigning",
"unfeigned"
]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"I would never feign illness just to get out of a test"
],
"synonyms":[
"acted",
"affected",
"assumed",
"bluffed",
"counterfeited",
"dissembled",
"faked",
"passed (for)",
"pretended",
"professed",
"put on",
"shammed",
"simulated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulated",
"impersonated",
"let on",
"masqueraded",
"playacted",
"played",
"posed",
"forged",
"imitated",
"camouflaged",
"concealed",
"disguised",
"masked",
"feinted",
"malingered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"feebly":{
"as in quietly , softly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"faintly",
"low",
"noiselessly",
"quietly",
"softly",
"inaudibly",
"silently",
"soundlessly",
"voicelessly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloud",
"audibly",
"out",
"out loud",
"verbally",
"vocally",
"clearly",
"discernibly",
"distinctly",
"distinguishably",
"perceptibly",
"plainly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"fencing (in)":{
"to close or shut in by or as if by barriers":{
"examples":[
"fencing in the yard would keep our dog in as well as keep unwanted stray dogs out"
],
"synonyms":[
"boxing (in)",
"caging",
"closeting",
"cooping (up)",
"corralling",
"encaging",
"encasing",
"enclosing",
"inclosing",
"enveloping",
"hedging",
"hemming (in)",
"housing",
"immuring",
"including",
"mewing (up)",
"penning",
"walling (in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounding",
"circumscribing",
"confining",
"containing",
"limiting",
"restricting",
"encircling",
"encompassing",
"enfolding",
"enframing",
"enlacing",
"framing",
"ringing",
"surrounding",
"armoring",
"cocooning",
"encapsulating",
"encapsuling",
"encysting",
"ensheathing",
"ensphering",
"enwombing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fends for oneself":{
"to meet one's day-to-day needs":{
"examples":[
"She knew she would have to fend for herself if she went away to college instead of staying at home."
],
"synonyms":[
"copes",
"does",
"fares",
"gets along",
"gets by",
"gets on",
"makes out",
"manages",
"shifts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carries on",
"contrives",
"scrapes (by or through)",
"scrounges",
"lasts",
"survives",
"ekes out",
"scrapes (out)",
"squeezes",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"affords",
"swings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fails",
"falls short",
"fizzles",
"flounders",
"declines",
"peters (out)",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"gives up"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"fezzes":{
"as in turbans , toques":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baseball caps",
"berets",
"billycocks",
"birettas",
"boaters",
"bonnets",
"bowlers",
"calottes",
"capuches",
"casques",
"castors",
"cloches",
"cocked hats",
"cowboy hats",
"cowls",
"derbies",
"fedoras",
"garrison caps",
"hard hats",
"helmets",
"helms",
"high hats",
"homburgs",
"hoods",
"kepis",
"k\u00e9pis",
"kufis",
"leghorns",
"miters",
"mitres",
"nightcaps",
"opera hats",
"overseas caps",
"panamas",
"picture hats",
"pillboxes",
"plug hats",
"porkpie hats",
"service caps",
"shakos",
"shakoes",
"silk hats",
"skimmers",
"skullcaps",
"sombreros",
"sou'westers",
"Stetsons",
"stocking caps",
"stovepipes",
"sunbonnets",
"tam-o'-shanters",
"tams",
"ten-gallon hats",
"top hats",
"toppers",
"toques",
"tricornes",
"tricorns",
"turbans",
"zucchettos",
"caps",
"chapeaus",
"chapeaux",
"hats",
"headdresses",
"headgears",
"headpieces",
"lids",
"warbonnets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fellowshiped":{
"as in took , received":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admitted",
"entered",
"received",
"took",
"entertained",
"welcomed",
"confirmed",
"ratified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"declined",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"dismissed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"blackballed",
"blacklisted",
"ostracized",
"banished",
"deported",
"exiled",
"expelled",
"ousted",
"threw out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fellahin":{
"as in peasants , peons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boors",
"churls",
"cottars",
"cotters",
"peasants",
"peons",
"peones",
"commoners",
"plebeians",
"plebs",
"proletarians",
"toilers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentlemen",
"grandees",
"lords",
"milords",
"noblemen",
"peers",
"country gentlemen",
"squires",
"cavaliers",
"chevaliers",
"knights"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"femme fatale":{
"a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive":{
"examples":[
"an actress who was often cast as cynical, sexy femmes fatales"
],
"synonyms":[
"enchantress",
"seductress",
"siren",
"temptress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beguiler",
"charmer",
"seducer",
"vamp",
"sexpot",
"sex symbol"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"feline":{
"a small domestic animal known for catching mice":{
"examples":[
"the commercial claims that the product will please the palate of even the most finicky feline"
],
"synonyms":[
"cat",
"house cat",
"kitty",
"moggy",
"moggie",
"puss",
"pussy",
"pussycat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mouser",
"kit",
"kitten",
"alley cat",
"tabby",
"gib",
"tomcat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"moving easily":{
"examples":[
"the thief was eerily feline as he moved stealthily through the darkened rooms"
],
"synonyms":[
"agile",
"featly",
"graceful",
"gracile",
"light",
"light-footed",
"light-foot",
"lightsome",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"nimble",
"spry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acrobatic",
"flexible",
"limber",
"loose-jointed",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"supple",
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"light-fingered",
"fleet-footed",
"sure-footed",
"athletic",
"balletic",
"coordinated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"uncoordinated",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"bungling",
"inept",
"maladroit"
],
"antonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gawky",
"graceless",
"klutzy",
"lumbering",
"ungainly",
"ungraceful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"fens":{
"spongy land saturated or partially covered with water":{
"examples":[
"a day spent trudging through the fens in quest of game birds"
],
"synonyms":[
"bogs",
"marshes",
"marshlands",
"mires",
"moors",
"morasses",
"muskegs",
"sloughs",
"slews",
"slues",
"swamplands",
"swamps",
"washes",
"wetlands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swales",
"quagmires",
"gucks",
"gooks",
"muck",
"muds",
"oozes",
"slimes",
"slop",
"sludges",
"slush"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fettered":{
"as in enslaved , captive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bound",
"captive",
"conquered",
"enslaved",
"subdued",
"subjugated",
"dependent",
"nonautonomous",
"non-self-governing",
"subject",
"unfree",
"inferior",
"subordinate",
"subservient"
],
"near antonyms":[
"autonomous",
"free",
"freestanding",
"independent",
"self-governed",
"self-governing",
"self-ruling",
"separate",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"freeborn",
"delivered",
"emancipated",
"freed",
"liberated",
"manumitted",
"redeemed",
"released"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to confine or restrain with or as if with chains":{
"examples":[
"museum artifacts that serve as somber reminders of the days when slaves were fettered with irons"
],
"synonyms":[
"bound",
"chained",
"enchained",
"enfettered",
"gyved",
"handcuffed",
"manacled",
"pinioned",
"shackled",
"trammeled",
"trammelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hobbled",
"hog-tied",
"ironed",
"lashed",
"secured",
"tied",
"trussed",
"attached",
"fastened",
"joined",
"linked",
"confined",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"hampered",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"limited",
"restricted",
"entangled",
"tangled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipated",
"freed",
"liberated",
"loosed",
"released",
"rescued",
"undid",
"unfastened",
"untangled",
"untied",
"detached",
"disengaged"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbound",
"unfettered",
"unshackled"
]
},
"to create difficulty for the work or activity of":{
"examples":[
"the belief that too many rules and restrictions fetter children's creativity"
],
"synonyms":[
"clogged",
"cramped",
"embarrassed",
"encumbered",
"hampered",
"handcuffed",
"handicapped",
"held back",
"held up",
"hindered",
"hobbled",
"hog-tied",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"interfered (with)",
"manacled",
"obstructed",
"shackled",
"short-circuited",
"stymied",
"tied up",
"trammeled",
"trammelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balked",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"reined",
"restrained",
"bound",
"chained",
"haltered",
"leashed",
"tethered",
"tied",
"arrested",
"braked",
"delayed",
"retained",
"retarded",
"barricaded",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"roadblocked",
"bogged (down)",
"mired",
"choked",
"smothered",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"suffocated",
"baffled",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"stumped",
"thwarted",
"derailed",
"disrupted",
"sabotaged",
"muzzled",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"confined",
"hedged (in)",
"hemmed (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleared",
"made way",
"opened",
"unclogged",
"unplugged",
"unstopped",
"freed",
"liberated",
"released",
"untied",
"loosened",
"smoothed",
"encouraged",
"furthered",
"promoted"
],
"antonyms":[
"aided",
"assisted",
"facilitated",
"helped"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"ferocity":{
"a very fierce or violent quality; the quality or state of being ferocious":{
"examples":[
"the ferocity of the attack",
"The ferocity of the backlash took them by surprise."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fellness",
"ferociousness",
"fierceness",
"grimness",
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"brutality",
"cruelness",
"cruelty",
"fiendishness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"inhumanness",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"wantonness",
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"ruthlessness",
"unfeelingness",
"bloodlust",
"bloodthirstiness",
"murderousness",
"sanguineness",
"sanguinity",
"cattiness",
"despitefulness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spitefulness",
"hardhandedness",
"harshness",
"heavy-handedness",
"oppressiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness",
"warmness",
"warmth",
"charitableness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"pity",
"benignity",
"compassion",
"good-heartedness",
"humaneness",
"humanity",
"kindheartedness",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tenderheartedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"fends (off)":{
"to drive back":{
"examples":[
"the herd fended off attacking hyenas"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats off",
"rebuts",
"repels",
"repulses",
"staves off",
"turns away",
"turns back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"defies",
"fights",
"holds off",
"opposes",
"resists",
"stands off",
"withstands",
"deflects",
"wards (off)",
"rebuffs",
"snubs",
"spurns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"embraces",
"hails",
"welcomes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"feature":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"a restaurant featuring an extensive list of American wines to complement its creative American cuisine"
],
"synonyms":[
"accent",
"accentuate",
"emphasize",
"foreground",
"highlight",
"illuminate",
"play up",
"point (up)",
"press",
"punctuate",
"stress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focus",
"identify",
"pinpoint",
"spotlight",
"advertise",
"boost",
"plug",
"promote",
"publicize",
"overplay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tone (down)",
"underemphasize",
"understate",
"belittle",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasize",
"play down"
]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"I can't feature that guy wearing anything other than his usual jeans and T-shirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceit",
"conceive",
"conjure (up)",
"dream",
"envisage",
"envision",
"fancy",
"fantasize",
"fantasy",
"ideate",
"image",
"imagine",
"picture",
"see",
"vision",
"visualize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydream",
"stargaze",
"hallucinate",
"re-create",
"reflect",
"relive",
"reminisce",
"contemplate",
"meditate",
"muse",
"ponder",
"ruminate",
"concoct",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"plan",
"project",
"foresee",
"prefigure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind":{
"examples":[
"perhaps the most striking feature of that house is the way it was constructed to fit into its hillside site"
],
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"attribute",
"attribution",
"character",
"characteristic",
"criterion",
"diagnostic",
"differentia",
"fingerprint",
"hallmark",
"mark",
"marker",
"note",
"particularity",
"peculiarity",
"point",
"property",
"quality",
"specific",
"stamp",
"touch",
"trait"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badge",
"indication",
"sign",
"emblem",
"symbol",
"token",
"charm",
"grace",
"excellence",
"merit",
"virtue",
"eccentricity",
"idiosyncrasy",
"oddity",
"quirk",
"individuality",
"singularity",
"uniqueness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"fell out":{
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"club members were soon falling out about how to spend the money they'd made washing cars"
],
"synonyms":[
"altercated",
"argued",
"argufied",
"bickered",
"brabbled",
"brawled",
"controverted",
"disputed",
"fought",
"hassled",
"jarred",
"quarreled",
"quarrelled",
"quibbled",
"rowed",
"scrapped",
"spatted",
"squabbled",
"tiffed",
"wrangled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenged",
"dared",
"defied",
"clashed",
"contended",
"contested",
"tangled",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"fussed",
"nitpicked",
"considered",
"debated",
"discussed",
"kicked",
"objected",
"protested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexisted",
"got along",
"accepted",
"agreed",
"assented",
"concurred",
"consented"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come to be":{
"examples":[
"I had planned to have a sports career, but things fell out otherwise"
],
"synonyms":[
"came out",
"panned out",
"proved",
"shook out",
"turned out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"developed",
"emerged",
"evolved",
"germinated",
"played out",
"unfolded",
"worked out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"fell back on":{
"to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage":{
"examples":[
"If your teaching career doesn't work out, you always have your baking skills to fall back on ."
],
"synonyms":[
"consulted",
"referred (to)",
"resorted (to)",
"turned (to)",
"went (to)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employed",
"used",
"utilized",
"depended (on)",
"relied (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
}
}
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